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Those Pesky Privacy Settings

Monday, October 17, 2011 at 3:17pm by Tracy Mooney
Tracy Mooney

There has been a lot of talk in the news lately about privacy settings. Facebook, Verizon and even Etsy have all been making changes to their Privacy Settings. With all this talk about privacy settings, I think it is easy for people’s eyes to glaze over them or throw their hands up and say “I give Read more…

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Friends, Foes and Faceless Denizens – The Real Social Network

Monday, September 12, 2011 at 10:03am by Steven Fox
Steven Fox

I recently performed a penetration test of a transportation company in the Midwest. Save for a few low-severity vulnerabilities, Company X had a well-managed public-facing network infrastructure.  Satisfied with the status of their network security, I turned my attention to the human network. Searching for Company X on sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, I Read more…

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Net Giants Challenge French Data Law

Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 11:34am by Simon Hunt
Simon Hunt

An interesting story broke this week on BBC News and other sites regarding the Association of Internet Community Services (ASIC) in France starting a legal challenge against a new French law passed on March 1, 2011, the “Decree on the conservation of data”, which insists on the preservation and tracking of online activity. The LCEN Read more…

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Malware Rises, Zeus Goes Mobile, Stuxnet Confuses in Recent Quarter

Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 3:19pm by David Marcus
David Marcus

Looking at computer threats from quarter to quarter remains a busy experience for us at McAfee Labs. Through the first three quarters of the year we have analyzed and cataloged more threats than in all other years combined, and the growth in both volume and sophistication of malware and attacks shows no signs of slowing. Read more…

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The Riskiest Web Domains Revealed – Mapping The Malweb

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 6:36am by David Marcus
David Marcus

The world’s most heavily trafficked web domain, .COM, is now the riskiest, according to our fourth annual Mapping the Mal Web report released today. A staggering fifty-six percent of all risky sites end in .COM! Researcher at our very own McAfee Labs analyzed more than 27 million websites to uncover which domains are the most Read more…

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Ill take the Firesheep with a side order of ARP Poisoning please…

Monday, October 25, 2010 at 7:48am by David Marcus
David Marcus

I read with great relish about the release of Firesheep over the weekend at ToorCon. Firesheep, written by Eric Butler, is a FireFox plugin that allows for the capturing of “insecure” login information. From the Firesheep website: “When logging into a website you usually start by submitting your username and password. The server then checks Read more…

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Two Gulf States to Ban Some BlackBerry Functions

Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 1:21pm by Simon Hunt
Simon Hunt

Following on from a failed state-wide “hack” of the Blackberry system, where the state-controlled telco etisalat tried to distribute a “performance enhancing patch” to Blackberry users (which turned out to be a state-controlled back door program), The United Arab Emirates is threatening to block e-mail sending and IM delivery on Blackberries, and Saudi Arabia is threatening to Read more…

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Protecting Mobile Data: Just Kill Me Now

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 7:25pm by Evan Schuman
Evan Schuman

Geolocation presents new nightmares about protecting data.

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Missouri’s new Data Protection Disclosure Law

Monday, September 21, 2009 at 6:18pm by Simon Hunt
Simon Hunt

Although maybe unnoticed, a month ago Missouri finally joined that heady club called “states which have Data Privacy Laws.” On 28th August, the “Missouri Data Breach Notification Law,” or House Bill 62 took effect, not protecting, but at least enforcing care and attention of residents personal information (Social Security Numbers, Driver’s Licence Numbers, and information Read more…

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10 Things You Don't Want To Know About Bitlocker

Monday, August 31, 2009 at 5:30pm by Simon Hunt
Simon Hunt

With the forthcoming release of Windows 7, questions about “Bitlocker” are coming up again. For those of you who were around during the original release of Bitlocker, or as it was known then “Secure Startup,” you’ll remember that it was meant to completely eliminate the necessity for third party security software. Yes, Bitlocker was going Read more…

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