Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 LulzSec and other groups have been hacking an assortment of prominent organisations. For good or for bad, they have also been publishing their databases, which typically include emails and passwords. Given that most people re-use their passwords, this site allows the average person to check if their password(s) may have ...
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 Google has released a list of security features being built into the upcoming Chrome 13 and includes Content Security Policy (CSP) and HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) implementations, certificate pinning and self-XSS filter.The Content Security Policy (CSP) is a specification developed by Mozilla which aimed at providing a solution for ...
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 As has been widely reported, high profile users of Gmail - including US government officials, reporters and political activists - have had their email accounts hacked.This wasn't a sophisticated attack against Google's systems, but rather a cleverly-crafted HTML email which pointed to a Gmail phishing page. Victims would believe that ...
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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
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Monday, May 9th, 2011 A French security research firm boasted today that it has discovered a two-step process for defeating Google Chrome‘s sandbox, the security technology designed to protect the browser from being compromised by previously unknown security flaws. Experts say the discovery, if true, marks the first time hackers have figured out a ...
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