A Guide to Protecting Your Identity Online

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

With identity theft on the rise and personal information at a premium, it's never been more important to be cautious about what you reveal online. Social-networking sites such as Facebook have largely usurped chatrooms and forums -- at least in the grown-up world -- as fun places to hang around online ...

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) – A Real-World Example

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is an attack that's pretty basic to detect, pretty basic in execution, and you'd think that it would be rather simple to understand. Unfortunately this is apparently not the case. I won't go into the details of Cross-Site Scripting because others have beat that to death - ...

Vishing Attacks Increasing

Friday, June 13th, 2008

In recent months, Web site compromises have become the most prevalent problem that threatens Internet users from all over. While this trend continues to dominate today’s security issues, let’s not forget about other threats that, although may be not as massive as these attacks, have equally serious ramifications against the ...

Major security sites hit by XSS bugs

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

The websites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, according to a new report. The report, from security watchdog site XSSed, verified 30 cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities across the sites of McAfee, Symantec and VeriSign. The flaws could ...

New Zlob Trojan Alters Your Router Settings

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Another new development in the malware arena, this new version of Zlob will actually log onto your router and change the DNS settings to hijack your traffic. Pretty interesting approach and it will work because 99% of people won’t change the default password on their routers. Let’s face it, have you ...