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Monday, August 23, 2010
New Hack Pinpoints Cell Phone User's Location, Personal And Business Relationships
Turns out you don't even need a GPS to track a mobile phone user's whereabouts and glean her movements and interactions: Researchers have discovered a way to use information from the GSM mobile ... More
Monday, August 09, 2010
Google wants to patent technology used to 'snoop' Wi-Fi networks
Google's secret Wi-Fi snooping was powered by new sniffing technology that the company wants to patent, court documents filed Wednesday alleged.
A just-amended complaint in a class-action lawsuit ... More
Monday, July 26, 2010
RockYou hack exposes names, passwords of 30M accounts
Hackers breached a database at social networking application maker RockYou Inc. and accessed username and password information on more than 30 million individuals with accounts at the company.
The ... More
Monday, July 12, 2010
Monster.com Data Breach
Monster.com was hacked, and people's personal data was stolen. Normally I wouldn't bother even writing about this—it happens all the time—but an AP reporter called me yesterday to ... More
Monday, June 28, 2010
Six Years of Patch Tuesday
Nice article summing up six years of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays:
The total number of flaws disclosed and patched by the software maker so far this year stands at around 160, more than the 155 or so ... More
Monday, June 14, 2010
Microsoft takes credit for resolving Sidekick data loss, but not for causing it
It's been no secret that the Premium Mobile Services group at Microsoft, headed by Corporate Vice President Roz Ho, has been working on a secret class of consumer-facing mobile projects, least ... More
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
The DNS Vulnerability
July 19, 2008
Despite the best efforts of the security community, the details of a critical internet vulnerability discovered by Dan Kaminsky about six months ago have leaked. Hackers are racing to ... More
Monday, May 31, 2010
The Meaning of Trust
Rajendrasinh Makwana was a UNIX contractor for Fannie Mae. On October 24, he was fired. Before he left, he slipped a logic bomb into the organisation's network. The bomb would have ... More
Monday, May 31, 2010
Are Port Scans Precursors to Attack?
December 15, 2005
Interesting research: "Port scans may not be a pre-cursor to hacking efforts, according to conventional wisdom," reports the University of Maryland's engineering school. ... More
Monday, May 17, 2010
Schneier-Ranum Face-Off: Should the Government Stop Outsourcing Code Development?
This essay appeared as the second half of a point/counterpoint with Marcus Ranum. Marcus's half is More
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