February 2012
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Facebook will never be safe to use
Jacob Appelbaum, hacker, former Wikileaks volunteer recently told not to register on Facebook if you do not wish surveillance organized on you. He admitted, you will give out sensitive information even without your consent - if you have even a couple of friends who may tag you on pictures.
To be even more precise, even if you do NOT register, you might be tagged - but that is just another part of...
January 2012
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QR-code mania will get you hacked
Today we face popularity of QR-codes. Most tech-savvy people already actively use them to transfer encoded digital information into their devices, to follow links and to input data into their devices with no manual typing.
Some inventive “hackers” already started using this technique by sticking false QR-codes over real ones. So in case you use code-recognition client, which is...
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Today is the end of the Internet in Bielorus
This beautiful sunny day in Bielorus tends to be the final step about cutting off the Internet by the country’s borders. Now most worldwide resources, host providers and everyone else in the world, ever benefiting from *.by zone traffic will suffer clients loss. The President of Bileorus, Aleksandr Lukashenko introduced a law, penalizing everyone, who will access foreign servers for almost...
December 2011
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Skype mystery or are you under control?
I have heard many “safe” and “dangerous” stories about Skype. Being confused as to what I should believe in, I opened Google and understood two things right immediately. These are concerns about Skype:
1) Is your VoIP data secure with it;
2) Is all other data you own, secure, when Skype is installed at your device.
Considering the first, company is hardly trying to...
November 2011
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Your habits will identify you
Still one more thing left unsolved in identification aspect of the Web. How do you prove, the person, sitting in front of the monitor is that very same she claims to be? I personally thought about it before, and today Defence Advanced Researh Projects Agency (DARPA) decided to solve this finally. They would identify a “digital signature” or “digital fingerprint” based on...
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Madonna's fault or leaky promotion techniques
Have recently read the new video of Madonna gone for web before the final release. And this was a demo-version, which raised a great tsunami of discussing on Twitter and other social places of the web.
I came up to the conclusion, leakage promotion techniques is a great way to reload the interest for some artist or public person on purpose. Especially when it is far too low.
Another leaks from...
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Find out what waits for you at the corner on the...
Saw cheap IPhone 5 today at the electronics market. Fashion rules, no doubt, and everyone wants the toy. Even though the 5-th even doesn’t exist yet. Strange feeling to witness the ghost.
I expanded my network of InfoSec specialists, analysts and geeks on Twitter. And got hinted to look at owasp.org project. I usually have numerous tabs open in Firefox, never timely reading them - so they...
October 2011
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Facebook reveals hidden security mystery
Facebook has revealed a security system called FIS (Facebook Immunity System). FIS controls every read-write action of each user on the social network. This defends 99% of Facebookers from spam, as stated by Facebook itself. The defense system happens to be the biggest in the world, equipped with 30 supervisors, enabled to learn and take actions on noticing suspicious behavior patterns.
The...
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How smart is the smartphone? Hackers decide
Today smartphones or tablet PCs are widespread. But what risks do we face? Lets check that out.
The most popular on the market Android OS tends to become an interesting target for world’s cutest brains. The simplicity of malicious applications distribution to phones and tablets brings evil ideas into everyday mobile life. Every unchecked application may be simply put on the Android market....
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Germany is spying on citizens via computer viruses
High technologies have never been so influential as these days. Hard to imagine modern governments omit this possibility to control their countries one more, invisible on-line way.
So did Germany. But whatever you do, especially if its “not completely legal” thing, better think twice about whom to hire for that. Though usually we learn from our mistakes, one day they just publicly...
August 2011
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Your router still may be hacked, DNS rebinding
Recently on code.google.com the list of tested DNS-rebind affected routers had been updated.
The list is accessible by this link: http://code.google.com/p/rebind/wiki/TestedRouters
What is DNS rebinding and why is it dangerous for your router? If you will get tricked to enter a website, whose DNS A-record states two IP-addresses, one belongs to the site itself, another - is dynamically...
Demand for infosec specialists grows in 2011
Professionals focusing on network security in the contract market should benefit from an increase in demand for services to counter hacking attacks, according to Barclay Simpson, professional recruitment firm. The demand is expected to be powered by requirements for risk assessment skills for both applications and infrastructure, as well as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards...
Your info can be stolen... from phone
ViaSecurity - a mobile security company, held a number of tests on mobile applications and found out many of them store your sensitive information in open form, including official bank applications. Andrew Hoog, the Chief Investigative Officer for ViaForensics says a hacker can easily fake AT&T or Starbucks WiFi spot and steal information. They also encourage user to put a passcode on their...
Wifi hotspots are security threats
During the holiday period you often use WIFI hotspots located on the streets, in cafes and at other public places. Attackers use their own hotspots, masked as if they were real, to relay traffic, steal passwords and credit card data. All you notice is the connection slowdown. When your data gets captured, your connection is forwarded to the real hotspot or to another available Internet connection....