August 5, 2010 - Following on from a failed state-wide “hack” of the Blackberry system, where the state-controlled telco etisalat tried to distribute a “performance enhancing patch” to Blackberry users (which turned out to be a state-controlled back door program), The United Read more
August 4, 2010 - Gizmodo ran a story about who is downloading the files with the information about 100 million facebook users. http://gizmodo.com/5599970/major-corporations-are-downloading-those-100-million-facebook-profiles-off-bittorrent It turns out that lots of people are. The story says companies, such as Motorola, IBM, Apple, and Disney, among others, are Read more
August 3, 2010 - You might recall back in November of 2009 ESET released the findings of a survey about cybercrime http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/11/16/once-upon-a-cybercrime%E2%80%A6. We went back to Competitive Edge Research & Read more
July 29, 2010 - Despite all those people who honoured May 31st 2010 as Quit Facebook Day – well, 31,000 people, maybe not an enormous dent in the 500 million users Facebook recently claimed – Facebook marches on. Clearly they're doing something Read more
July 28, 2010 - Do you have an iPhone or an Android based phone? Wait, don’t tell me, if you installed some third party apps I can probably find out. According to Lookout Inc., in an article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100728/ap_on_re_us/us_tec_techbit_apps_privacy many of the iPhone and Android Read more
March 19, 2010 - Last few years can be called a “social networking era”. Just remember the rise ups (and depressions) of myspace.com, linked.in etc. These networks are now completely shadowed by FaceBook and Twitter. Even when myspace and similar networks are not that Read more
February 3, 2010 - Microsoft has disclosed a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that can allow an attacker to cause local files on the system to be displayed as HTML.Technically, all versions of IE are affected, Read more
February 2, 2010 - It's standard operating procedure for most users to have a small number of passwords, perhaps only one, that they use on every site that requires a username and password. This is, of Read more
February 2, 2010 - An anonymous entry on the CryptoPath blog describes how flaws in the iPhone OS's "chain of trust" management could allow an attacker to install their own trusted root certificate in the Read more
January 27, 2010 - The Tools-Internet Options dialog box in Internet Explorer has a wealth of important settings in it, some which affect the system outside of Internet Explorer. This dialog box is also available as Read more
January 27, 2010 - Tomorrow, Thursday, January 28, 2010, is Data Privacy Day in North America and Europe. (Sorry I didn't get you a card. What's your address and social security number so I can Read more
January 27, 2010 - A report in Computerworld describes how an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer could allow an attacker to read arbitrary files on the user's computer.Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina, a security consultant with Read more
January 25, 2010 - We have reported on Ben Edelman's research in the past, including the recent past. The spyware researcher and Harvard B-School professor has demonstrated that the Google Toolbar continues to track a Read more
January 22, 2010 - Upromise has announced that they moved immediately to address the privacy problems identified by Ben Edelman yesterday in their toolbar, TurboSaver.Only TurboSaver users who selected personalized offers were affected, although this Read more
January 22, 2010 - Say you're bringing your notebook through airport security in the US. Can the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) personnel copy your hard disk and/or search the data on it?No, says Blogger Bob Read more
January 21, 2010 - Privacy researcher and Harvard Business School Professor Ben Edelman has written a report on the practices of the Upromise Toolbar, called TurboSaver by the company.Upromise is a membership system through which Read more
January 15, 2010 - One of the big security stories of last month was that Facebook changed their Read more
January 12, 2010 - It's an eventful day. Just as they release an important new version of Acrobat, Adobe has also revealed that "...a sophisticated, coordinated attack..." was mounted "...against corporate network systems managed by Read more
January 11, 2010 - If you allow applications to save your passwords, anyone with physical access to your PC can decode them unless you're properly encrypting them—and chances are pretty good you're not. Let's walk through the right Read more
