Blogs | Page 5
Facebook Joins Google, Mozilla, Barracuda in Paying Bug Bounties
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-08-03
Facebook has joined the handful of companies who pay bug bounties to researchers who discover vulnerabilities.
Most Website flaws, such as cross-site scripting,
... Read More
... Read More
Security Tips to Not Get Hacked at Black Hat
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-08-02
Writing about information security, I tend to be very paranoid. This is a good thing as it means I am creating complicated passwords, regularly clearing out my browser history and cookies, and never click on links in my e-mail, even when it's my company's HR department demanding I fill out
Anonymous Member Plans Open Source Malware, Automated Tools
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-08-02
Businesses often time big product announcements just before a big technology trade show, so why should hacktivist collective Anonymous be any different?
A few days before
... Read More
... Read More
Iran Rips-and-Replaces Centrifuges Post-Stuxnet
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-26
A new report suggests Iran's nuclear program has not recovered from the Stuxnet worm as previously believed. It appears Iran is still replacing thousands of expensive centrifuges that
... Read More
... Read More
Game in App Store Stealing Customer Apple ID
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-25
Customers are claiming an app downloaded from Apple's App Store was using their login credentials to make illicit purchases.
Customers complained their Apple IDs and passwords were used
... Read More
... Read More
Spammers Use Google Docs for Fake Surveys
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-20
Spammers have always been creative, coming up with new techniques, jumping on breaking news, and adopting the latest technology, all in the name of pushing out as many e-mail messages as
... Read More
... Read More
Mozilla Patch Firefox to Fix Mac OS X Lion Bug
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-18
Mozilla will be updating its Firefox Web browser to address a bug in the new Mac OS X Lion operating system coming soon from Apple.
Apple's new Mac OS X 10.7 operating system contains a bug that causes Firefox 5 to crash when displaying Websites that use downloadable fonts, Mozilla said.
Apple's Latest iOS Firmware Jailbroken By the Weekend
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-17
In case anyone wondered whether they would still be able to jailbreak their iOS devices after Apple patched the PDF flaw, the answer seems to be a resounding yes.
Apple released a new firmware update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch on July 15 which plugged the flaw in how
Mozilla BrowserID Handles Logins So Websites Don't Have To
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-15
Mozilla released a new federated login mechanism to replace the login process on many Websites. Using the new systems, users won't have to remember unique passwords for each
... Read More
... Read More
Anti-Anonymous Vigilantism Goes Awry
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-14
Vigilante justice doesn't always work out well, and that's also true for the online world.
As Anonymous and its prankster off-shoot LulzSec, merrily stomping through company networks around the
... Read More
... Read More
China Shut Down 1 Million Websites in 2010
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-13
The Chinese government has shut down more than one million Websites in 2010, according to a Chinese state-run agency.
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said there were 41 percent fewer Websites at the end of 2010 than a year earlier, according to a BBC report July 13. Chinese officials
Google+Facebook Extension Security Risk, Potential 'Malware'
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-12
Even as users clamor to join the new Google+ social networking platform, not all of them are willing to leave behind Facebook, the other social networking site. The problem is, there's an application out there that lets them combine the two services but it may put users at risk.
Google+Facebook, a
Siemens Warns of Latest SCADA Vulnerability
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-08
Another weakness has been identified in a Siemens AG industrial control software that would allow remote attackers to intercept and decipher passwords and change device configuration
... Read More
... Read More
Chromebooks Run Adobe Flash "Pepper"
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-07-07
As Chromebooks hit the market, users may be needlessly vulnerable to Flash-based exploits, according to a Kaspersky Lab researcher.
A fully updated Samsung Chromebook was running an outdated
... Read More
... Read More
LulzSec's Last Laugh? Malware Found in Data Dump
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-06-28
Did hacking group LulzSec go for one last prank before shutting down its operation under the Lulz Security name? That's what the folks over at StopMalvertising are claiming.
When the group announced on Twitter and Pastebin that it was ending its 50-day hacking spree, it linked to a torrent at The
