Articles tagged with: privacy
Security researchers have found a security flaw in Skype. The flaw found several properties of Skype that can track not only a users' locations over time, but also their P2P file activity. The researchers also found that "even when a user blocks callers or connects from behind a Network Address Translation (NAT), it does not prevent the privacy risk" said the researchers. The research concluded that a user can initiate a Skype call, block some packets and quickly terminate the call to obtain an unsuspecting person's IP address without alerting them with ringing or pop-up window. Users
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By Armando Romeo, eLearnSecurity and ID Theft Protect
Duqu: The Precursor Stuxnet Attack
By Rebecca Wynn
Duqu is essentially the precursor to a future Stuxnet-like attack. The threat was written by the same authors, or those that have access to the Stuxnet source code, and the recovered samples have been created after the lastdiscovered version of Stuxnet. Duqu’s purpose is to gather intelligence data and assets from entities such as industrial infrastructure and system manufacturers, amongst others not in the industrial sector, in order to more easily conduct a future attack against another third party. The attackers are
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Sunday, 27 Nov, 2011
Back in March of this year I (Julian Evans blog) wrote a post about the Facebook ‘Like’ button JavaScript threat. In it I highlighted how easy it was for Facebook to collect data for internal analysis (i.e.improve
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Thursday, 17 Nov, 2011
After the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation, Facebook is about to change the way it uses your personal information. Facebook is now close to reaching an agreement with the FTC to change its privacy in order
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Monday, 14 Nov, 2011
Rootkits Hidden in Hardware of PC by Anibal Sacco
Let's think like an attacker for a second. There are multiple applications dedicated to find malicious code both in user and in kernel space. So new places have to be found to
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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
Most of Julian's (
http://julianevansblog.com) readers probably have a Facebook account, and some of you might also have a Twitter and foursquare account. Given Julian's blog is all about protecting your online and offline identity you
The Android 4.0 operating system, otherwise known as “Ice Cream Sandwich”, has been in the security news recently. Android 4.0 is possibly Google’s most secure operating system, to date, so to hear that Android 4.0 has added
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Thursday, 20 Oct, 2011
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Thursday, 20 Oct, 2011
A number of Facebook users have contacted Julian about the “Hide this from” feature. They wanted to know whether they could hide posts from some friends. Let’s clear this up. Well Julian will attempt to clear it up
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Thursday, 6 Oct, 2011
The city of Yverdon-les-Bains will host by end of October the 2011 edition of the Application Security Forum - Western Switzerland conference. For this second edition, an exceptional lineup consisting of:
19 speakers and trainers, both locally and internationally recognized,
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Thursday, 29 Sep, 2011
Google Chrome users who read
julianevansblog.com, have voiced concerns on a number of occasions recently about the AutoFill feature. Let’s take a look at this feature (which has been around for over a year
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Wednesday, 14 Sep, 2011
Popular sites such as MSN, Hulu and Flixster have been using supercookies (aka “Flash cookies”) for some time in an attempt to find a way around users deleting normal cookies (which can be up to 4K in
