Weeks after researchers unveiled Firesheep, the Firefox Web browser plugin that makes it easy to snoop on strangers’ Facebook, Flickr and other Web 2.0 sessions, a software update from the Electronic Frontier Foundation promises to secure more Web sessions from Firesheep-enabled snooping.
A leading group of mobile device hackers have released a software update that allows iPhone and iPad users to circumvent content controls using the latest version of Apple’s iOS operating system.
Reports surfaced last week about an incident dating back to April, 2010 that involved the suspicious rerouting of Internet traffic through infrastructure belonging to a telecommunications carrier in China. Originally reported within technical circles in April, the incident simmered within the small community of network operators who debated the cause of what appeared to be a large scale hijacking of Internet traffic to infrastructure operated by China Telecommunications. But was it?
Apple iPhone and iPad users are buzzing about the new features that come with the latest update to the company’s iOS mobile operating system. But the update also contains dozens of fixes for security holes that could have allowed attackers to compromise the popular devices using malicious PDF files, Web based attacks, and more.
A ten year veteran of the U.S. automaker Ford Motor Company pleaded guilty in federal court on November 17 to charges that he stole company secrets, including design documents, worth more than $50 million and sharing them with his new employer: the Chinese division of a U.S. rival of Ford’s.
A German security researcher who used a new kind of hosted offering on Amazon’s EC2 to decipher password data encrypted using the SHA1 algorithm said that cloud computing is likely to upset long held assumptions about security: putting the tools required to crack encrypted passwords and data into the hands of the masses.
Apple on Thursday issued updates for its Safari Web browser to fix more than two dozen vulnerabilities that left the browser open to Web-based attacks.
Web based attacks and botnets kept enterprises on the defensive in the third quarter, 2010, according to data released by Cisco Systems.
A bug in an account verification system used by Facebook resulted in a wave of account suspensions Tuesday that had users locked out of the world’s largest social network and scratching their heads over the reason.
Once the most common form of malicious computer network, botnets that use the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol are going the way of the Brontosaurus, according to a report from Internet security monitoring firm Team Cymru.
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