Very interesting new type of a phishing attack using tabs
Aza Raskin from the Mozilla Firefox team found a pretty interesting new type of phishing attack that uses automatic change of favicon icon to make one of your tabs look like …
Slackware 13.1 released
After many months of development and careful testing, Slackware 13.1 has been released. Slackware 13.1 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you’ll find two …
New cloud powered ZoneAlarm Free Firewall
The new ZoneAlarm Free Firewall is powered by the community for stronger security – its DefenseNet service analyzes malware automatically reported by the community of …
New book: “Surviving Cyberwar”
“Surviving Cyberwar” examines in depth the major recent cyber attacks that have taken place around the world, discusses the implications of such attacks, and …
New Facebook clickjacking attack
There is a new Facebook focused worm circulating around. Currently it seems that it doesn’t have any malicious payload, except spamming via posting messages to the …
Wi-Fi security patent granted for dynamic authentication and encryption
Ruckus Wireless has been granted a patent by the USPTO for an innovation that radically simplifies the configuration, administration and strength of wireless network security. …
More Facebook users hit by “distracting beach babes”
Sophos is warning Facebook users to be on their guard, after an attack this weekend designed to infect computers with adware. Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users are …
Google now supports encrypted search
Google just rolled out SSL encryption to Google Search. The option is currently in beta, therefore the users aren’t automatically transferred to https. Over the years, …
Week in review: Facebook privacy problems and web fingerprints
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: Google encrypts Google Search Following the unintended collection of …
Social networking sites passing on user data to ad agencies
Several social networking sites – including Facebook and MySpace – have apparently been sending users’ data to advertising agencies – in spite of all …
iptables 1.4.8 released
iptables is the userspace command line program used to configure the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x IPv4 packet filtering ruleset. It is targeted towards system administrators. The …
New book: “Security on Rails”
You need to know how to defend yourself. Designing security into an application is a little like getting insurance. You know you really need it, you probably keep putting it …
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