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 ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010 The good news about SSL-based websites: Most are running strong encryption. The bad news: More than 60 percent aren't properly configured.Researcher Ivan Ristic, who is director of engineering, Web application firewall, and SSL at Qualys, revealed findings here yesterday from a study he conducted of some 120 million registered domain ...
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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
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Monday, July 26th, 2010 Security experts at AirTight Networks have discovered a hole in the WPA2 Wi-Fi security protocol. The security hole was named as Hole 196 after the number of the relevant page in the IEEE 802.11 (2007) standard document:. Right at the bottom of this page, the IEEE introduces the keys used ...
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 IronKey has launched its Trusted Access for Banking USB stick at InfoSec 2010 in London. The IronKey TAB uses an isolated virtual machine launched from the stick and a intermediate server accessed through a VPN like connection to create a secure channel from the user to IronKey's servers, and from ...
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