January 23, 2012 - A database server at DreamHost is illegally accessed by a hacker, and the passwords of some customers may have been compromised. Read more
January 17, 2012 - Just received cool new suede Pumas from Zappos last week, and this week I received an email explaining that my account was breached. Turns out that the popular online shoe (continue reading...) Read more
January 17, 2012 - Way back in the 1990s, during the Q&A session after an EICAR presentation on social engineering, there was an animated discussion arising from some slides I'd included on password selection and usage. Some wondered why we were still (continue reading...) Read more
January 6, 2012 - A new patent from Apple shows how a power cable could help users access their computing devices when they forget their passwords - and perhaps improve security. Read more
December 30, 2011 - Newton's 3rd law is often stated as "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." Actually, what Newton actually said is a little more complex* than that, but this article isn't about physics (or else I'd leave (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2011 - Urban Schrott, my colleague at ESET Ireland, has been sharing some interesting statistical information in recent months from surveys conducted on the company's behalf in Ireland, covering such issues as infection patterns, attitudes to security and safe computing, (continue reading...) Read more
November 15, 2011 - The Reuters news agency reported earlier today a sudden increase in violent and pornographic images and videos on Facebook. A quick review of my personal account and a check-in with my other Facebook-wielding colleagues revealed a couple of (continue reading...) Read more
November 15, 2011 - The courts have no problem separating individuals from their supposed privacy and confidentiality, regardless of what Twitter, Facebook et al. might state in their terms of service. Read more
November 4, 2011 - You can't have failed to notice that a lot of account/password combinations have been captured in recent years (especially this year) and made available on the Internet (e.g. Gawker, Rockyou, various Lulzsec dumps) for any bad actor to try (continue reading...) Read more
October 28, 2011 - Every 140 milliseconds, an account is compromised on Facebook. The social networking giant announces new security features, and talks about its fight against cybercrime. Read more
October 26, 2011 - A security scandal is making news headlines in Sweden as claims are made that newspaper journalists and politicians were spied upon, hundreds of thousands of users have their details exposed, and a major blogging portal shuts its doors. (continue reading...) Read more
October 17, 2011 - Google has launched a campaign promoting online safety, in association with the UK's Citizen's Advice Bureau. But will it result in more people taking care about their online security? Read more
October 12, 2011 - Hackers successfully broke into 93,000 accounts at Sony over the last few days, once again impacting users of the Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Online Entertainment services. Read more
October 8, 2011 - Enjoy the latest security news in brief by watching 60 Second Security! This episode: learning from the 10-year-old Nimda virus, finding a password hole in Lion, taking down support scammers and the dot CZ dot CC domain, and farewelling Steve Jobs. (continue reading...) Read more
October 6, 2011 - A new survey of American teenagers and young adults has discovered that three out of every 10 have had their Facebook, Twitter or MySpace accounts broken into for the purposes of snooping or impersonation. And most know who was responsible. (continue reading...) Read more
September 2, 2011 - The cone of silence over WikiLeaks' thousands of sources - many of whose lives are at risk if identified - has been shattered, all (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2011 - Late last week, I was in a taxi with a business acquaintance, heading to an event at which we were both speaking. We're both Mac users, so in the fashion (continue reading...) Read more
August 26, 2011 - The Acunetix WVS Login Sequence Recorder can be used for many other tasks rather than just to scan password protected areas. If used appropriately it will help (continue reading...) Read more
August 25, 2011 - A joke about passwords has won a competition for the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe. Stand-up comedian Nick Helm was judged to have the best joke of the festival, beating (continue reading...) Read more
August 25, 2011 - Acunetix WVS includes different settings and tools which when configured properly will enable the scanner to automatically crawl the entire web application; therefore the automated scanning engine will always obtain a complete reach over the site structure. In a scheduled scan, (continue reading...) Read more