The security pros at Sophos Labs and McAfee have noticed a disturbing increase in Facebook phishing attacks lately. Facebook is a juicy target for this type of attack. Why?
For starters, there are 350 million + users to go after. On top of that, many are less computer-savy users (like your parents and mine, teenagers, etc.) [...]
It’s all the rage at the moment: drop your cumbersome, expensive and high-maintenance physical servers and get some virtual servers! Basically, instead of managing an entire physical server — hard disk, processors, power, etc. — you can now buy a share of a large server. They’re called VPS or VDS — virtual private/dedicated servers — [...]
Until now, geolocation has been one of those quaint, semi-useful buzzwords: ‘… now with geolocation!!!’ Twitter, Buzz and Foursquare — the main exponents of exposing your location — might not be small, but they pale in comparison to Facebook. With the announcement that Facebook will be enabling geolocation next month, Pandora’s Box has been torn [...]
Yes, details so super-secret that the White House has decided to declassify and disclose them!
The WSJ is reporting on the White House’s new Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), a program intended to shore up the U.S. Internet defenses. The main reason for declassification seems to be due to privacy concerns — and as always [...]
Look at it up there, in the top left corner, just above your middle finger, all innocuous-looking… just gagging to be depressed… you could just give F1 a little tickle, no one would know… STOP! Don’t do it! At least, not if you’re on Windows 2000, XP or Server 2003. A few days ago a [...]
… at least, that’s what the Paraben Porn Detection Stick website claims. (And you thought I was mounting my anti-religious warhorse! For shame!)
Paraben are a ‘forensics’ company that specialize in a wide variety of kinda-cool solutions to odd, and mostly technological, problems. The Porn Stick, much like their ‘Chat Stick’ uncovers chat logs, is all [...]
With the Pwn2Own hacking contest coming up at Vancouver’s CanSecWest security conference later this month, Italian computer security blog OneITSecurity took some time to interview Charlie Miller. Miller, in case you’re not familiar, is a security expert who has won Pwn2Own two years running by hacking Apple’s Safari browser with incredible speed. Safari isn’t the [...]
The Chinese hacker behind the attacks on Google and other prominent Silicon Valley corporations has been found. Perhaps the term ‘cracker’ or ’security consultant’ is more accurate though, because he didn’t launch the attacks himself: he just created the proof-of-concept IE6 exploit code.
The security consultant doesn’t work directly with the government, but as a researcher [...]
Security specialists from Russia have made a Windows exploit for a previously unknown security hole in Mozilla’s Firefox 3.6 available to the public. The exploit allows attackers to remotely gain control of your Windows machine. Developer Evgeny Legerov praises his exploit for Windows XP (SP3) and Vista as being reliable, however that doesn’t necessarily mean [...]
At Pwn2Own 2010, hackers will spend three solid days trying to crack operating systems, browsers and mobile phones architectures. “Safari will be the first to go,” says one of the main sponsors of the event, Aaron Portnoy — though, saying that, only Google Chrome was found ‘unhackable’ at last year’s Pwn2Own.
This year they’ll be looking [...]
