Recently there has been a huge discourse in the security community about the proper way to disclose a vulnerabilty. A vulnerability can be defined as “A security exposure in an operating system or other system software or application software component”. Security exposures that people find typically vary between coding structure vulnerabilities, logical program design flaws, [...]
Yahoo, Hewlett Packard and Intel are jointly announcing a new cloud computing research initiative called the Cloud Computing Test Bed. It’s being described as “a globally distributed, Internet-scale testing environment designed to encourage research on the software, data center management and hardware issues associated with cloud computing at a larger scale than ever before.” Other [...]
A recent study showed that people aged 18-29 account for nearly 30 Percent of all the reported identity theft cases. This is presumably because of college students, but thieves are also beginning to target young professionals. Younger targets offer a particularly delicious mark for identity thieves, because they are presumably just beginning their credit lives [...]
True to form, AT&T is attempting to scuttle the Great American WiMAX Merger. Late last week, the big-name US telco tossed an official petition (PDF) at the FCC requesting the destruction of the proposed WiMAX tie-up between Sprint and Clearwire. “The applicants have failed to address in any meaningful way the competitive showing traditionally required [...]
The iPhone’s Mail and Safari browser applications are prone to a URL spoofing vulnerability, which may allow attackers to conduct phishing attacks against the phone’s users. Security researcher Aviv Raff has revealed the vulnerability in his blog. By creating a specially crafted URL, and sending it via an e-mail, an attacker can convince the user [...]
Sorry, I have been out of commision this past week, due to the removal of- Not One, Not Two, But FOUR wisdom teeth.Needless to say- I spent most of this week completely out of it; so I have not been able to really write or stay up-to-date on whats been going on. I missed the [...]
The Trojan in question has been named Limbo 2, and according to the people who came up with it, the best 10 security software solutions on the market today are not capable of detecting it. Acquiring this malware will set you back about $1,300, but for that amount of money you will get a software [...]
This Story comes AFTER my article on the dangers of the use of RFID tickets at the Beijing, I cant believe they didn’t even mention RFID Dangers. Irresponsible. Remember that warning U.S. security agencies gave government officials and businesses? It appears that warning may be publicly extended to any and all travelers to Beijing. The [...]
In what appears to be a violation of Net Neutrality by Rogers Cable, Digital Home readers are reporting that Rogers High Speed Internet service has begun redirecting customers “Server not found pages” to webpages laden with Rogers advertising. The hijacking of the webpage appears to be attempt by Rogers to use its Deep Packet Inspection [...]
The Wi-Fi Link 5000 chip that’s part of Intel’s newly launched Centrino 2 platform doesn’t appear to like security keys that comprise a stack of zeros. That’s the conclusion drawn by writer Frank Ohlhorst, who’s been testing a pair of Centrino laptops and found they wouldn’t talk to access points from different vendors whenever he [...]