“Papa Bear”’s take on the Palin Hack

Thanks to Dan at the Register and Mark at BoingBoing, I found this little gem in my RSS reader this morning. Bill O’Reilly is attempting to understand the liabilities faced by news organizations that report on improperly obtained data. You know, like the Pentagon Papers.

Not only do I find it interesting to see [...]

Adobe moves to nuke ‘clipboard hijack’ attacks

Adobe has announced plans to modify the next version of its Flash Player to use an “allow/deny” system to mitigate clipboard hijack attacks. The change will be fitted into the final version of Flash Player 10 to demand user interaction when a Shockwave (.swf) file attempts to set data on a user’s clipboard. It [...]

Apple security not ready for enterprise prime-time

Guest editorial by Andrew Storms Last week Apple proved that they are not ready for prime time enterprise relationships. Apple has tried to position the iPhone as enterprise-ready, but this last round of software updates demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt how far they have to go to understand the enterprise mentality.

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Phishers Spoof Facebook (Again)

Trend Micro Content Security recently stumbled upon a Facebook phishing site hosted in the URL http://www(dot)facezbook(dot)com/ (notice the wayward letter in the middle). Here’s a screenshot of the site:

The page, which looks very similar to the actual Facebook login page, asks users to log into their accounts by entering their email addresses and passwords. [...]

Old Bug Haunts New Google Browser

Google’s Chrome hit the Web on September 2 with promises of solid security, but not a day after its launch and already, there were reports of possible vulnerabilities in the much-vaunted new browser to make it a platform for malware infection. Google has not been shy about acknowledging Chrome’s debt to many open source projects, [...]