Bye-bye Vista, Bye-Bye Mac, Linux remains on top of the heap! With Vista breached, Linux unbeaten in hacking contest The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended [...]
Most people would have thought Windows would have been the easiest to hack. A lesson to Mac owners: You’re not invulnerable. Mac easiest to hack, says $10,000 winner www.computerworld.com, “The security researcher who walked away with $10,000 yesterday by hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes said he chose to attack Apple Inc.’s [...]
A security update has been released for Mozilla Firefox 2.x.x Firefox Update Tackles Pair of Critical Bugs While Mozilla is busily developing its next-generation Firefox 3 open source Web browser, work continues to improve stability and security with the current Firefox 2.x. A case in point is the new Firefox 2.0.0.13 release, which is accompanied [...]
If you thought spam, phishing, identity-theft, viruses and spyware were the creation of bored teenagers, think again. Trend Micro reports on the sophistication and adapatiblity of one of the world’s largest cyber-crime enterprises – a kind of digital Mafia. Botnet Update—Where in the World is RBN? Last autumn, Trend Micro reported on the Russian Business [...]
From the Wall Street Journal comes this cautionary tale of overreliance on technology. Steered Wrong: Drivers Trust GPS Even to a Fault Blind Faith in Devices Trumps Common Sense; A Road to Nowhere If your GPS device told you to drive off a cliff would you do it? Norman Sussman nearly did. Mr. Sussman recently [...]
We’ve covered wireless security before on many occasions: see here, here, here and here by way of review. Igor Pankov, who runs a blog Security Teacher covers the wireless basics again in two recent articles: The first on general security measures for wireless networks: Increasing Security for WiFi Networks Now we understand how to secure a [...]
Interesting little article from Consumer Reports on cell-phone spam. Cell-phone spam still trails computer spam, with the typical cell-phone user receiving at most a few spam text messages per year rather than the thousands that may bombard their computer-based e-mail accounts. But in some ways, cell spam is more annoying. It can cause your phone to ring [...]
If so, you may have a problem! A recent article from Microsoft is designed for parents to help their kids from spending too much time online. Maintaining a healthy balance between entertainment media and other activities in their children’s lives has always been a challenge for parents. The Internet has made this challenge even more [...]
We’ve looked at phishing scams and how to avoid them but what if you’ve already clicked on that bad link and submitted your information to the bad guys? A new article from Microsoft lays out the steps to follow to report the incident and mitigate any damage done. Step 1: Report the incident to the following authorities Step [...]
