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Wednesday, 7 Mar, 2012
Mobile Device Security
by Prashant Verma
A lot of speculations these days are on the mobile devices and the security features they provide. The mobile phone and tablet usage has picked up on account of the numerous benefits, not to mention the comfort at fingertips and that too on the move. The number of free Wi-Fi hotspots in the cities is also going up - an additional incentive for the users to posses’ tablets to be connected and remain updated. The pace, at which Smart phones and tablets are being sold, is equally complemented by the availability of applications in the
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Wednesday, 7 Mar, 2012
Norton (Symantec) recently launched the
Identity Safe mobile cloud-based security service in beta trial mode. It’s a free password management browser toolbar (IE only) that allows users to store and manage (via upload) logins and passwords for apps, websites and for example online banking services. The cloud integration allows you to synchronise your login across multiple devices including mobile. It looks like the browser is sandboxed, but I cannot confirm it right now.
After you download and install the PC version which installs a browser toolbar in IE, you might also want to download the
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Wednesday, 7 Mar, 2012
NFC is much talked about in the media, and the main driving force behind this is Google with it’s Google Wallet solution. Google Wallet is an app that allows you to store offers, loyalty and credit card
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Wednesday, 7 Mar, 2012
Windows Secure Boot (known as a ‘Trusted Boot Process’) is a process that loads anti-malware before the OS boots. It is designed to prevent rootkits, but can only work if the operating system is using UEFI (which
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Thursday, 1 Mar, 2012
DNS Cache Poisoning
by Jesus Rivero
Computers that are able to communicate with each other, do so by means of a network protocol, generally TCP over IP, or just TCP/IP. The IP protocol establishes that every node in the network must have,
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Thursday, 1 Mar, 2012
Security researcher Shadab Siddiqui recently uncovered several vulnerabilities in the social media site Pinterest, which has more than 10 million active users. A
security researcher identified a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability and an iframe injection issue that
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Thursday, 1 Mar, 2012
Google has officially withdrawn its sponsorship from the 2012 Pwn2Own security challenge. According to Google, they pulled out after they discovered that exploits demonstrated at the event did not have to be disclosed to the affected vendors. Instead,
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Thursday, 1 Mar, 2012
There appears to be many choices when it comes to using Do Not Track (DNT) extensions/add-ons with browsers. Until recently I hadn’t found one extension/add-on* that I could really truly say is easy to use and does
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Thursday, 1 Mar, 2012
Those that use OS X might be aware of FileVault. This post assumes you have already
set up FileVault or have some knowledge of its capabilities – so for those of you
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Thursday, 1 Mar, 2012
Following on from my previous post on how iOS apps are accessing and uploading contact data, it's now been reported there are permission issues with an app that can access the iOS photo library. A test app
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Wednesday, 22 Feb, 2012
Pingit allows users in the UK to send payments from one mobile to another in the UK – it’s a kind of P2P application. The Pingit app is of course free to download to any smartphone such
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Tuesday, 21 Feb, 2012
Apple has introduced Gatekeeper to a select handful of developers recently, and given I like research I couldn’t help but notice that over 20 years ago the Mac had an antivirus software called, yes you’ve guessed it
