Far To Many Trojans! (1)
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If you have TrendMicro Internet Security Pro and have done a scan to find that you have far too many TROJ_Generic and/or TROJ_Generic.adv files in your quarantine - and you look at the list finding Windows Systems files, you DO NOT have a Trojan in your computer system. This is a newly discovered problem in TrendMIcro pattern file updates and you need to fix the problem. The blog post contains the information you need for ...
Gogrids Security Faux Pas (2)
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Shane Jones is reporting on the cloud computing group that Gogrid has some serious security issues surrounding their password policies.Shane posted this earier.I contacted customer support through their online live chat support. My expectation was that they would either point me to a page where I could go through a process of requesting a password reset or that they would have to reset my password and the system would automatically send it to my email ...
What Mary Fallin Didn't Say (1)
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Oklahoma Representative Mary Fallin just spoke at the Republican National Convention this evening. She linked the 1995 bombing by domestic terrorists in Oklahoma City with the 2001 bombing by foreign terrorist in New York City. Her speech was followed by a video entitled World Stood Still that was designed to elicit visceral reactions among fearful Americans. The video and Fallin’s speech were meant to drive home the message, made explicit by Fallin, that the most ...
Chrome: Google's biggest threat to your privacy (1)
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Lost in all the hooplah about Chrome's release is a very disturbing fact: The new browser could be Google's greatest privacy invader yet. In fact, Chrome can send back the keystrokes you type into its Address Bar, even if you don't bother to hit Enter. I've got details, along with a fix. read more
Adam Savage: Mythbuster Retracts Statements About RFID (26)
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Mythbusters host Adam Savage is retracting comments he made at a hackers conference where he said an episode exposing security flaws in credit card RFID technology was squelched by credit card company lawyers. In a new statement Adam says, " If I went into the detail of exactly why this story didn't get filmed, it's so bizarre and convoluted that no one would believe me, but suffice to say...the decision not to continue on with ...
Users booted for Facebook spam cry to the Washington Post about it [Great Moments In Journalism] (7)
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Elizabeth Coe sent 100 friends a link to her company's website. This feat got her booted from Facebook — and got her featured in the opening of a Washington Post story about Facebook's spam-fighting effort. Facebook is now banning users who ask too many people to be friends all at once, send too many messages, join too many groups, or "poke" too many people. "All I was doing is using it to communicate more efficiently, ...
Adam Savage's RFID implant activates, orders him to change his story (16)
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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsIt's no secret that RFID isn't the most secure thing in the world, so we mostly took Adam Savage's story about Discovery telling the Mythbusters to back off an episode exposing the tech's flaws after a conference call with various cred card company lawyers as a bit of laughable corporate insecurity, but it looks like Adam got himself in a bit of trouble by sharing -- Discovery's now sending out a release ...
Manage &038; Protect Passwords and Other Data with LockCrypt | MakeUseOf.com (3)
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Managing and protecting your personal data on your computer is an uphill task in the modern era. There is no dearth of hackers and spammers who work day and night to intrude into your computer and gain access to all your sensitive data and information. LockCrypt is a freeware application which aims to avoid such a situation by storing your confidential data in a secure and encrypted form. It is an easy-to-use utility which works ...
AdmitOne Security uses keystroke identification to screen users (1)
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Identity thieves are everywhere. A teenager snatched the login of his real-estate agent father and threw wild parties at homes that were up for sale. Students get someone else to take a test for them. Loan officers get hacked and the profiles of 7,000 of their customers are stolen. This is the problem that AdmitOne Security is trying to solve. It uses the novel technology of keystroke identification. That is, it uses software to detect ...
Learn How to Secure Your WordPress Blog (3)
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We hear almost every day about bloggers getting their login information comprimised. Are you one of the many people that are growing increasingly concerned about their blogs security? If you are looking up ways to beef up the security of your WordPress blog, Make Tech Easier has posted a great article about 11 ways to secure your WordPress blog. The post includes a few security tips we’ve already covered in past posts, plus a bunch ...
Google Chrome Security Vulnerability (2)
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Now this did not take long. Only one day after releasing a first public beta version of Google Chrome researchers at Kaspersky discovered (Thanks Neil for sending the tip) a security vulnerability that combines a security flaw in Webkit, the browser engine used by Google Chrome, with a Java bug. Apple fixed the vulnerability in Safari back in July after two months of doing nothing about it and it will be interesting to see how ...
Battery operated web-controlled door locks (1)
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Ok, now come on. Web-controlled door locks? Oh, Schlage, tell me it’s not true. It is? Your LiNK system is great you say? Ok, well, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt for your Z-Wave home automation technology. Being able to wirelessly control temperature, lighting and even the pool certainly sounds cool. I see, so the Z-Wave “Bridge” plugs into an Ethernet port on the household Internet router, which enables me to control all ...
Diebold Admits Ohio Machines May Lose Votes (2)
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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Premier Election Solutions (a subsidiary of Diebold) has acknowledged a flaw that causes the systems to lose votes. It cannot be patched before the election and the machines are used in half of Ohio's counties, but they are issuing guidelines for avoiding the problem that presumably contain a work-around. While Diebold initially blamed anti-virus software for the glitch, they have now discovered that the bug was their own ...
Rohos Mini Drive Encrypts Your USB Drive Files (9)
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Windows only: Encryption tool Rohos Mini Drive secures the files on your flash drive—but unlike our favorite encryption utility TrueCrypt, it creates partitions you can access even without administrative access on the computer in question (like a coffee shop workstation). Creating a drive is simple: Install Rohos Mini Drive on your primary workstation, plug in the USB drive you wish to secure and the wizard walks you through the rest. The only hiccup you may ...
Zombie Network Explosion (1)
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anti-globalism writes "The number of compromised zombie PCs in botnet networks has quadrupled over the last three months. Shadowserver tracks botnet activity and the number of command and control servers. It uses a variety of metrics to slice and dice its figures based in part on the entropy of botnet infections. The clear trend within these figures is upwards, with a rise in botnet numbers of 100,000 to 400,000 (if 30 day entropy is factored ...
Xsstc: Cross-site scripting through CSS data (9)
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Wes Biggs has posted on Xsstc, his cross-site scripting solution that uses CSS to hide the data: It turns out CSS leaks data in a very subtle way. Properties set by an external stylesheet (that is, one that is loaded using a LINK REL="STYLESHEET" tag) are used to style the elements of the host page, and at runtime the page can introspect itself to see what styles have been applied. Most of these tend to ...
Google Chrome and when vertical integration rocks (1)
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“Ouch, it hurts, it hurts!” … “Oh yeah, that feels good, so good!” Guess which one is all other browsers moaning collectively (Microsoft & Firefox no. 1), and which one is the geeks… Let me start by saying that Google Chrome rocks! OK, it crashed about 2 mins after I started it, and I think it has a process running in the background, which speeds up the launch, but which I hate, and it is ...
Rethinking the Desktop Model (3)
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It is time to rethink the way the desktop works. Some of my ideas may seem radical but sometimes evolution is the only solution to all of our problems. Read on… I have this idea for quite some time now. Picture the following: a stripped-down Linux kernel with all security mechanisms to the max; levels 2 to 5 configured to run just the most basic set of services such the scheduler, the hardware abstraction and ...
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Beyond some of the security issues, we really need a new desktop paradigm that helps make everyday tasks more efficient! Although things are moving that way, its happening by adding more and more to the existing thus making things work less than efficiently and worse slowing us down!
My Preferred Definition of Security (1)
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There is much debate in the information security world regarding the proper definition of security. I have seen dozens of definitions over the years, but I feel the following option most completely and succinctly captures it. The process of maintaining an acceptable level of perceived risk. There are a few things I like about this definition. Process. i.e. it doesn’t end. Acceptable. This alludes to the fact that the organization’s upper management decides—based on the ...
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On September 11th, Data-forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski will guide law enforcement personnel "and anyone else who has a need to access the not-so-readily available data on an iPhone" through the process of bypassing the passcode lock security using a custom firmware bundle during a 45-minute webcast on O'Reilly.com. This will enable users to "recover, process, and remove sensitive data stored on the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch." Zdziarski was one of the first to ...Shared by Erik C. Thauvin (38)Contribute comment
