by
Stefanie Hoffman
| June 15, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Stefanie Hoffman
| June 15, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
When Facebook broke all records with its $100 billion IPO, security experts wondered if the news would make it an even bigger target for hackers.
But let’s face it, with the world’s largest social network climbing toward a bil...
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Stefanie Hoffman
| June 11, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Stefanie Hoffman
| June 11, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
With the World Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) launch safely under our belts, organizations will inevitably be faced with the daunting task of upgrading every device connected to their network—no small task for any company t...
by
Stefanie Hoffman
| May 29, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Stefanie Hoffman
| May 29, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Cybercrime was thwarted a bit during the last full week of May, with arrests that ranged from an alleged high profile cybercriminal to a small time hacker. And researchers possibly found a way to combat a major SSL spoof that p...
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Stefanie Hoffman
| April 26, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Stefanie Hoffman
| April 26, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Kids these days. Up to their usual antics like cutting class, inventing new senior pranks and…hacking into computer systems?
Lately, high school campuses have been the breeding grounds for what seems to be a rash of teenage cy...
by
Stefanie Hoffman
| April 20, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Stefanie Hoffman
| April 20, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
For the most part, we all know what NOT to do when it comes to security best practices. We all know not to click on unsolicited links embedded in e-mail or IM. We all know not to open any strange attachments or respond to suspi...
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Stefanie Hoffman
| April 09, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Stefanie Hoffman
| April 09, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Security took a few unexpected twists and turns for the first week of April. For one, Mac owners received a bit of a jolt when a rapidly spreading botnet ran rampant on their machines. Meanwhile, Anonymous is expanding its reac...
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Stefanie Hoffman
| April 02, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Stefanie Hoffman
| April 02, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Once upon a time in 2009 the City of Bozeman, Montana found itself at the brunt of a public firestorm when it became known that members had the audacity to request social networking credentials from applicants.
Oh, those were ...
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Stefanie Hoffman
| April 02, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
Stefanie Hoffman
| April 02, 2012
| Category: Industry Trends & News
“Big” seemed to epitomize last week in security—from big botnet takedowns to big breaches to big privacy issues related to a certain social networking site. Here is this week’s lowdown.
Zeus Takedown: Microsoft kicked of...
by
Ruchna Nigam
| June 20, 2011
| Category: Security Research
Ruchna Nigam
| June 20, 2011
| Category: Security Research
A couple of days back, a game of Nerd Truth or Dare in the lab led to the shocking revelation that most of us were using our Facebook/Twitter accounts mainly to keep up with security blogs. Personally, being a twitter non-confo...
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Axelle Apvrille
| December 21, 2010
| Category: Security Research
Axelle Apvrille
| December 21, 2010
| Category: Security Research
A while ago, probably after a long and difficult day, I got into this funny idea of encrypting my Facebook account messages so that only the people I really wanted to could read them (i.e not an unknown stranger using Firesheep...
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Guillaume Lovet
| May 04, 2009
| Category: Security Research
Guillaume Lovet
| May 04, 2009
| Category: Security Research
Our sensors (i.e. our digital media person, a rabid fan of Facebook) caught today some interesting Facebook private messages. One of such, sent by a “Friend” to about 100 contacts of hers, merely consisted in a doma...
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Guillaume Lovet
| March 05, 2009
| Category: Security Research
Guillaume Lovet
| March 05, 2009
| Category: Security Research
The Koobface worm scouring Facebook since last July, and which made the headlines again this week, is certainly beginning to redesign the concept of “friend. ” The “acquaintance from high school you’ve n...
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