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Naivete: Web 2.0's biggest security threat Last year, when I first started poking around in social media from my security high horse, people asked me what it was like to live in two totally different worlds. Keep in mind I'm no technology thought leader, hacker or researcher -- but I've been working in security for the...
Twitter authority frenzy led to Twitter phishing meltdown Folks like to know where they stand, and in recent weeks people on Twitter have been, well, all a-twitter about the idea of Twitter Authority. They want to know who is most influential—a repeat of the phenomenon that swept the blogosphere a while back. It's a human thing, but it...
FOXNews apparent victim of Twitter phishing attack By now everyone knows about the phishing scam that started attacking Twitter over the weekend. And most everyone else knows that a majority of those accounts have been harvested and are using DMs to push people to potential drive-by-malware sites. It appears that the attackers, however, had...
News to know: Windows 7; Twitter phishing; Apple; Floppies Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: The bell tolls for your magnetic media Robin Harris: Long-term personal data storage Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First reactions to Windows 7 ...
British police can now hack citizens' PCs Seems like Britain's Home Office is channeling Dick Cheney. Last week I wrote that the U.K. is going forward with a plan to build a massive database of every phone call, email and chat conversation in the country. Supposedly they're going to datamine this stuff to find terrorists. ...
Twitter phishing... inside Twitter Over the weekend I received a handful of reports of individuals using Direct Messages inside of Twitter to phish for Twitter accounts and passwords. A cluster of compromised Twitter accounts are sending out person-to-person phishing messages inside the Twitter network. These messages and the target website...
Lessons from the Death Map Human perceptions are at human scale - so a few big events are memorable, many small ones are not. by Paul Murphy
Real plugs critical holes in Helix Server RealNetworks has shipped a new version of its Helix Server to plug at least four vulnerabilities that introduce code execution and denial-of-service risks. The flaws affect Helix Server Version 11.x, Helix Server Version 12.x, Helix Mobile Server Version 11.x and Helix Mobile Server Version 12.x. Three...
Military contractor "cyber-defense" gold rush begins Sensing a shift in upcoming defense priorities, Lockheed and Boeing are both launching information security product divisions. Bloomberg is reporting that both Lockheed Martin and Boeing are building security product groups to address the military's needs in defending cyberspace. I doubt that the military requires technology...
Netbook security risks? I'm typing this post on the Acer Aspire One that I've been using nonstop since Acer sent me a review unit and just read an interesting article in PC World Canada about the potential security risks associated with netbooks. The author calls netbooks a "potential security nightmare," citing a...
