Archive for 'Privacy'
Web Cams Vulnerable to Clickjackers
A major warning has been given about the high risk of clickjacking – a malicious attack on web servers – is spreading, and spreading fast insecurity fear-mongers are warning. The clickjacking technique is yet another simple but ingenious way of revealing all to a prying hacker. This attack works by directing a user to a [...]
Full StoryFraud plagues prepaid calling card market
Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia. There were the cards that didn’t deliver as many minutes as promised and the cards that charged extra fees to call a cell phone. There were the cards [...]
Full StoryHackers Attract Users to Fake Blogs
Cybercriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google’s Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct it to malware serving blogs primarily hosted at Windows Lives’ Spaces. According to a recent advisory issued by Webroot: “For the first time, [...]
Full StoryLegitimate Web sites become Hackers Playground
Should we worry about legitimate sites being the main target for exploits? Yes! Many of the trusted web sites we visit today can be your worst nightmare. As more people become accustomed to Web surfing and downloading software and multimedia, legitimate Web sites have become the favorite targets of hackers. It’s important to surf with [...]
Full StoryPassword Management Tips
Listed below are 10 tips on managing your passwords and preventing someone from knowing your credentials. Passwords must not be written down. Passwords must be set. When the password is “password or a default that is assigned”, change it immediately. Make sure (if available) to create a secret question (in the event you forget your [...]
Full StoryHackers at it again
The FBI over the weekend executed a search on the apartment of a University of Tennessee student suspected in the hacking of Republican vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account. It has been reported that hackers broke into the personal site of Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who had been carrying on for [...]
Full StoryFake Anti-malware Products Threaten Internet Users
The latest trend of security threats against Internet users employs software products which pretend to be security tools that help rid your computer of spyware. In a new video series, WOT shows what can happen to your computer if you visit a risky or dangerous site. In the first of these video presentations, you will [...]
Full StoryI Know Your Password
There is a cool tool that scans databases such as MYSQL in an attempt to find accounts using passwords like “password,” “12345,” “qwerty” and “abc123.” The program runs through a list of account names and attempts to login using a number of password combination’s to gain access to a users account. This kind of hack [...]
Full StorySarah Palin Hacked!
Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account was Hacked on Tuesday by an activist group known as ‘anonymous’, according to a Web site that publishes leaked documents alleging government and corporate misconduct. Anonymous gained access to Palin’s Yahoo e-mail address on Tuesday evening and gave the information to Wikileaks, according to the Web site. Data shared included [...]
Full StoryFirefox 3.1 With Porn Mode
Firefox 3.1 is a major release with many new additions and fixes. Mozilla opens Pandora’s Box in the Mozilla Wiki that a feature will be added to the next version of Firefox, a private browsing mode. This is a mode in which writes to cache, history, and other traces of the user’s browsing activity are [...]
Full StoryMozilla Takes Security to the Next Level
SSL/TLS (HTTPS) is critical to user security and privacy on the Internet. In recent news about SSL/TLS certificates surf jacking, “HTTPS: Surf jacking makes it vulnerable,” and could lead to major issues for internet users. It’s required to have human intervention to validate the authenticity of certain types of certificates. This was obvious when Mozilla [...]
Full StoryParanoid About Your Surfing Habits?
It seems Big Brother is more of a voyeur than a nuisance. I am not a bit concerned if my ISP is recording what my surfing habits are, as most of the time I research and blog and check my latest Fantasy Baseball statistics. Even if I were downloading illegal music, porn or freeware, the [...]
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