Thursday, January 15th, 2009
TinyURL is a very handy service for shortening long URLs but it can also be used maliciously. Anytime somebody wants to hide where they are sending you they can easily generate a TinyURL and you will not know where you will end up. It could be a phishing site. It ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
By now, most of us are aware of the potential privacy risks posed by Web cookies. But according to a new paper published by security consultancy iSec Partners, traditional browser-based cookies aren't the only technology used to store user data anymore. A number of browser plug-ins offer similar capabilities -- ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Today, a major feature was added to the pre-release versions of Firefox 3.1, called Private Browsing. I've been working for quite some time on this, so I thought it may be a good time to write about what this feature is and how to use it.
As you may know, while ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
The invaluable NoScript for Firefox plug-in just got a tad better.
According to Giorgio Maone, the developer behind the popular browser extension, a new experimental feature called “Forced Secure Cookies” has been added to NoScript v1.8.0.5 to mitigate the HTTPS cookie hijacking attack vector discussed at DEFCON 16 last month.
Source:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1882
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Researchers have created a proof-of-concept application for Facebook that turned the machines of people who added the app to their Facebook page into a botnet that launched denial-of-service attacks on a victim server in a demonstration.
"Social Network Web sites have the ideal properties to become attack platforms," according to a ...
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