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Rogue ad battle at New York Times

According to Steven Musil at cnet Security The New York Times is in the midst of a battle to get rid of a what they are terming “an unauthorized advertisement”. In typical fashion ... continue

Linux not so pure and safe after all

For almost as long as there has been OS wars the mantra of the penguin herders has been that the likelihood of Linux ever being vulnerable to tings like viruses and trojans was next ... continue

Anonymous data not so anonymous after all

Like Hansel and Gretel's trail of breadcrumbs, we all leave a trail of personal information as we navigate the internet. Your friend sent you a birthday drink! A post about taxes in your hamlet, another about your toddler's ... continue

Selling out your kids online chats

Parents generally try to do the right thing when it comes to the amount of time their children spend on the web. They do everything they can to try and make it a safe ... continue

Lure of technological convenience hides a nasty side

There is no denying the fact that we all love our tech toys. Apple’s iPhone continues to sell, smart phones in general grow in popularity, GPS-based apps are just handy to have. Things like ... continue

OS X’s changing security landscape

There’s a lot of talk going on in the tech blogosphere about the newest release of OS X, Snow Leopard, coming to market with a built-in malware scanner. Now that it has shipped we ... continue

Snow Leopard ships with malware blocker (Wha??)

After years of lording over Windows the fact that Mac OS X doesn’t, or couldn’t get attacked by malware Apple’s next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, is being shipped with as malware blocker. ... continue

It takes 1,000 cameras to solve only one crime

If there is one thing that England is known for it is it Big Brother attitude about watching every move made by its citizens. In London alone there are more than a million cameras ... continue

Malware served up based on operating system

While the stick yer head segment of Mac users will almost certainly find some reason to spout their typical rhetoric about Mac’s being impervious to viruses, trojans and other such evil goodies that isn’t ... continue

AT&T says Mitnick is too hot for them

It sucks being a computer security guy at the best of times but it’s got to be doubly so if you are someone of Kevin Mitnick’s stature especially when not even your webhost or ... continue

BotNet command and control finds new home on Twitter

Twitter is being used for a lot of things these days but I bet one thing that the Twitter team never thought they would see their creation being used for the command and control ... continue

Bootkit – the next generation rootkit terror

I remember well the noise that was made when word of rootkits began to surface. They were nasty little suckers that threaten to by-pass your security programs and load all kinds of nasty bugger ... continue

CPU poisoning affects Intel systems

Researchers at Invisible Things Lab presented information at the CanSecWest conference on Thursday in Vancouver about a security exploit that could comprise computers running on Intel processors. The exploit involves the poisoning of of ... continue

Your Social Security Number: More social, less secure

The New York Times posted an article today detailing how most Americans' Social Security Numbers are easily guessed due to an "architecture of vulnerability" that has arisen alongside the internet. The number we've been told to guard with ... continue