Entries in the ‘Security’ Category:

Facebook Privacy Options Confuse CEO

Facebook made a huge change to the way privacy works on their site. If you’ve logged into your Facebook account this week you were probably greeted with a cryptic message and some options that were poorly worded and didn’t really convey the true sense of what was going on.

Christian Zibreg at has an article explaining [...]

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Protect Yourself From Online Fraud

Brian Krebs from the Washington Post dives into the problem in this story:

The simplest, most cost-effective answer I know of? Don’t use Microsoft Windows when accessing your bank account online.

I do not offer this recommendation lightly (and at the end of this column you’ll find a link to another column wherein I explain an easy-to-use [...]

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iPhone OS 3.1 and Anti-Phishing Support

The new version of iPhone OS has included anti-phishing support in the MobileSafari browser. Early reports indicated that the feature didn’t work or wasn’t working correctly. The guys at The Loop got ahold of Apple and cleared up the confusion.

We talked to Apple to find out what was going on and if the anti-phishing technology [...]

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WiFi WPA Security Under Pressure

If you use a WiFi network at home, and more importantly at work, securing it to keep out unwanted users is very important. There are now three methods in use to secure a wireless network. The earliest and most insecure is called WEP. If you’re still using WEP because your computer or router doesn’t support [...]

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Conversation with a Botmaster

Cisco did some undercover work and was able to find out some rather interesting facts regarding what motivates people to infect computers and turn them into bots.

Researchers at Cisco recently got a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the botnet underworld after going undercover and meeting an actual botmaster online: the botmaster, who ran [...]

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