I have gotten into a best-practices ‘routine’ while logging into and out of Facebook. A routine is part of any healthy Internet surfing session. They help remind you of your overall goals, and what you need to do to achieve them. With Facebook, my goals are to not have them gain information about me that [...]
Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Google’s new operating system floats on the cloud
http://www.technologyreview.com/web/26882/?p1=A1&a=f It looks like Google is set to fly high with their new line of notebooks. The new ChromeOS, unveiled recently, will rely on cloud computing to do most of its work. The Chrome web browser will be one of the only applications locally installed on the notebook, and will host its applications online through [...]
Firesheep Firefox add-on lets you (easily) hi-jack Facebook, Twitter sessions on public WiFi networks
Here’s a Firefox extension called Firesheep that lets you (easily) hijack Facebook, Twitter sessions of other people on public wifi networks. Protect yourself!! Read the article, be informed. Use the “HTTPS Everywhere” add-on from EFF to prevent your social networking identities from being comprimised. Special thanks to Eric Butler for exposing these facts through the [...]
FTC Warns of Fake FTC E-Mail Virus
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306979,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/cybersecurity WASHINGTON — The federal agency that fights Internet scams and spam is caught in the middle of an effort to fool e-mail recipients. The Federal Trade Commission warned this week that scammers are behind messages from the phony address of “frauddep@ftc.gov.” The e-mails claim that a has been filed with the FTC against the [...]
Mac trojan horse discovered in pirated Photoshop
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/macworld/mactrojanhorsediscoveredinpiratedphotoshop – Security software firm Intego reports that pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 may contain a variant of the “trojan horse” malware first reported in copies of Apple iWork 09 last week. OSX.Trojan.iServices.B is what the malware is being called. It affects some copies of Adobe Photoshop that are being distributed through pirate software [...]
Widespread Windows Worm May Be a Washout
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/security/65879.html The Kido worm — aka “Conficker,” aka ” Downadup” — has spread to nearly 9 million PCs around the world. However, security researchers say the malware may be hindered by a bug itself. It’s infecting computers, but it’s not really doing anything. Users with infected computers, however, may still be at risk. A computer [...]
Fake CNN E-Mail Lures PC Users Into Virus Trap
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478604,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/cybersecurity Fighting in the Middle East. The second-most-watched cable news channel. E-mail. Put them together, and you’ve got a perfect recipe for malicious hackers. RSA Security, which makes the little key-chain doohickeys that allow many corporate staffers to log into their business computer accounts from home, reported Thursday that a “phishing” e-mail was making the [...]
Koobface’ Virus Spreading Through Facebook
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,462784,00.html Users of social-networking Web sites have been warned to be on their guard after Facebook was targeted by a virus dubbed “Koobface.” The Koobface video virus uses the social network’s messaging system to infect computers and then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers. It is the latest attack by hackers [...]
Vista core safeguards rendered useless
http://tinyurl.com/62nqb2 – The security mechanisms that keep Microsoft Windows Vista safe have apparently been completely bypassed by security researchers. From the article: “Researchers who have read the paper that Dowd and Sotirov wrote on the techniques say their work is a major breakthrough and there is little that Microsoft can do to address the problems. [...]
Vista second OS to fall to hackers in security contest
http://tinyurl.com/27o9vm – From the article: “The three laptops (VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10, Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1, and a MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2) all held out for the first day of the contest (remotely exploitable vulnerabilities), and so the rules were relaxed on the second day to also include any default installed [...]