NSA’s Guide to Securing Your PC

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

NSA has developed and distributed configuration guidance for operating systems. These guides are currently being used throughout the government and by numerous entities as a security baseline for their systems. Source: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml

Facebook allows apps to access user’s address and mobile number

Monday, January 17th, 2011

In a move sure to have privacy advocates up in arms, Facebook will now allow apps to access a user's current address and mobile phone number. The new ''feature'' was quietly introduced in a blog post by Facebook platform developer relations employee Jeff Bowen late last Friday night. The Atlantic spotted ...

FireShepherd – The FireSheep Killer

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

FireShepherd, a small console program that floods the nearby wireless network with packets designed to turn off FireSheep, effectively shutting down nearby FireSheep programs every 0.5 sec or so, making you and the people around you secure from most people using FireSheep. The program kills the current version of FireSheep ...

Private browsing: it’s not so private

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Research by Stanford University to investigate the privacy of the "private browsing" feature of many Web browsers suggests that the tools aren't all that private after all, and that many kinds of information can be leaked by browsers when using the mode. The paper is due to be presented next week ...

171 Million Facebook Profiles Scraped

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Turns out that Facebook has a directory where you can get a list of all searchable FB users:https://www.facebook.com/directoryThese are now scraped and the torrent file is available for download for anybody who wants it.More info:http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=887