Archive for July, 2010
Quicktime,malicious movies and Angelina Jolie
By David Harley at 31 July, 2010, 5:16 am
No, I'm not casting aspersions about the acting ability of Ms Jolie.
Yesterday I blogged on the independent Mac Virus site about a threat making use of .MOV (movie) files. That blog refers to a report by Trend Micro's Marco Dela Vega that criminals are making use of the fact that Quicktime Player 7.6.6 allows movie … Read More.
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Loading ...Don’t Be Misled by Online Shopping
By Ugur Sahsi at 29 July, 2010, 3:51 pm
We have just noticed a cluster of fraudulent websites that attempt to mislead consumers. They use a common pattern: offering counterfeit products cheaper than the original to get consumers to send money. We expect consumers to try to get the best product or greatest utility for their money. Due to this desire, some consumers can [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Facebook Data Theft?? or an Eye Opener
By Tasneem Patanwala at 29 July, 2010, 3:51 pm
Ron Bowes, an online security consultant had a thought which he put down on paper so that all the “ingenious” people might be informed. The first and last name (and similar lists) of 100 million users on Facebook is not a remarkable discovery. There is no delight in owning anything unshared. The information “exposed” is … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Beware of Travelocity and Yahoo Travel
By Randy Abrams at 29 July, 2010, 1:58 pm
I recently read a column on Chris Elliott’s travel site warning of a truly dishonest and despicable practice that Yahoo Travel and Travelocity are engaging in to attempt to trick people into buying trip insurance.
When you go to these web sites and book a trip the screen shows you the price of the trip as … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Incidents on Facebook
By David Harley at 29 July, 2010, 1:03 pm
My Spanish colleague Josep Albors has also commented on recent Facebook security issues. Mistakes in translation and interpretation are, as always, mine.
The world's largest social network is a nearly inexhaustible news source: not only because it has reached 500 million users, or because it's the subject of a forthcoming film. It is also making news … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Facebook Losing More Than Face
By David Harley at 29 July, 2010, 10:52 am
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 right. But what?
It's probably not the personal charm of founder Mark Zuckerberg, who when he's not being … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Google Android and Really Bad Math
By Randy Abrams at 29 July, 2010, 10:16 am
Yesterday I blogged about a security company that found a high percentage of apps for the iPhone and for the Android were stealing user information. I call it stealing because the user is not aware of what personal data is leaving their phone.
At the Blackhat Security Conference in Las Vegas the same company, Lookout Inc. … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...False Positives and Apportioning Blame
By David Harley at 29 July, 2010, 4:37 am
Everyone hates false positives (FPs). Well, nearly everyone. For purveyors of fake anti-malware products, deliberate FPs are a source of income…
However, real security vendors hate them because every false positive is a significant detection failure, even if no-one notices (it's quite possible that most FPs pass unnoticed by anyone because the circumstances under which the scanner would … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Remote Jackpot: Hacking ATMs
By Toralv Dirro at 28 July, 2010, 4:47 pm
Isn’t it just everybody’s dream: to walk up to an ATM, swipe your card, get a flashy screen reading “We Have A Winner,” and watch the machine spew out all its money? That dream just became reality.
At least in a great presentation from Barnaby Jack at the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas. “Jackpotting Automated [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dead Men Tell No Tales, but Smart Phones Tell All
By Randy Abrams at 28 July, 2010, 3:48 pm
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 apps include spyware. To be fair, Lookout Inc didn’t call it spyware, but that is … Read More.
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