Posted in Security on Oct 28th, 2008
Search engines such as Google are increasingly being used by hackers against Web applications that hold sensitive data, according to a security expert.
Even with rising awareness about data security, it takes all of a few seconds to pluck Social Security numbers from Web sites using targeted search terms, said Amichai Shulman, founder and chief technology [...]
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Posted in Security on Oct 23rd, 2008
The security researcher was using his knowledge of Internet infrastructure to come up with a better way to stream videos to users.
Kaminsky’s expertise is in the Internet’s domain name system (DNS), the protocol responsible for matching websites’ URLs with the numeric addresses of the servers that host them.
It was only later, after talking casually about [...]
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Posted in Security on Jul 25th, 2008
Internet security researchers warned that hackers have caught on to a “critical” flaw that lets them control traffic on the internet.
An elite squad of computer industry engineers that labored in secret to solve the problem released a software “patch” two weeks ago and sought to keep details of the vulnerability hidden for at least a [...]
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Posted in Security on May 3rd, 2008
Credit card thieves are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in small retailers’ point-of-sale check-out systems, according to a new report.
Credit card thieves are taking advantage of small, brick-and-mortar retailers and of the vulnerabilities in their point-of-sale check-out systems, according to a report by Trustwave, a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) assessor. full [...]
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