Charlie Miller, Principal Analyst at Baltimore, Md.-based security firm ISE, has made news in the last two days saying that he found 20 perviously-unknown security vulnerabilities in Apple’s OS X operating system. News stories seem to anticipate that he will reveal them at the CanSec West conference next week in his talk “Babysitting an Army…
The DarkReading site is carrying a story about brand-protection firm MarkMonitor’s finding that phishing increased 62 percent in 2009 with 565,502 attacks in the year. MarkMonitor is based in San Francisco. Other conclusions in MarkMonitor’s 2009 BrandJacking Index report: The huge increase can probably be attributed to the use of botnets and the large amount…
The underlying structure of a typical website is made up of different folders and sub-folders, much like the ones that are on your computer. A webmaster (is this term still used often lol?) transfers files back and forth using an FTP client in order to update the website. In most cases, specific folders are created…
I won’t abuse it, I promise…. cross my heart… spit into the wind… etc. Hi folks, Yesterday, I received this SPIM (Instant message spam) … usnews3.com sounds kind of official, doesn’t it? and the page looks impressive… There are lots of links on the page, but unfortunately, a mouse-over of each link reveals that they…
Today there’s a phishing run underway in Twitter, using Direct Messages (“DMs”). These are private one-to-one Tweets inside Twitter. The messages look like these: If you follow the link, you end up to a fake Twitter page: If you mistakenly give out your credentials, the attackers will start sending similar Direct Messages to your contacts,…
With Windows 7 becoming increasingly popular, more and more software companies have begun to upgrade their interface for the latest Microsoft operating system. Manufacturers seem to understand the need for a beautiful user interface for their products. However, not all software behaves as good as it looks. Today, I saw a Fake Antivirus program with…
The internet is rife with free tools from anything to everything (almost) – from free HTML web editors to free applications to free games and so on. We’ve been in this situation before. Sometimes out of curiosity or “affluenza” (also known as “I-GOTTA-HAVE-IT-NOW-NO-MATTER-WHAT”), we are tempted to install some of these free tools and applications…
At age five most kids can hop, skip and tie their shoes without help. Google Code turns five this week, and while they’re still working on the shoelaces thing, they’ve grown from a simple site for hosting a couple of APIs into a destination for developers to prototype their ideas in a Code Playground, host…
Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” These days we can add to the certainty of those two inevitable events with the addition of the annual scams that accompany tax time. For those of you who haven’t heard of this type of scam, it’s…
Del Harvey, Director of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, announced on Twitter’s blog that the micro-blogging service has begun using its own shortening service to stop malicious operators from sending tweets with links to their dodgy sites disguised through shortening. He wrote: “By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can…