Month: July 2012

Passwords: what 442773 leaked Yahoo! accounts can tell us

July 16, 2012

While the ongoing floods of leaked account credentials from Formspring, LinkedIn et al. are potentially disastrous for the owners of those accounts, analysis of those data doesn’t only provide a way of seeing whether our own accounts are at risk. It also provides an incentive for us all to re-examine our own password (and passcode) selection … More Passwords: what 442773 leaked Yahoo! accounts can tell us

Instagram vulnerability can allow strangers access to your photos and more

July 12, 2012

Are you one of the 50 million users of Instagram, the photo-sharing service bought by Facebook in April for $1 billion? If so you need to look out for an Instagram update to fix a vulnerability that has just been published by Spanish security researcher Sebastián Guerrero. This vulnerability, which Guerrero has dubbed the “Friendship … More Instagram vulnerability can allow strangers access to your photos and more

Cybercrime and the small business: Basic defensive measures

July 10, 2012

Evidence that criminals are targeting the computer systems of small businesses continues to mount. The Wall Street Journal recently drew attention to the way cybercriminals are sniffing out vulnerable firms. The article highlighted the fact that about 72% of the 855 data breaches world-wide last year that were analyzed in Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation Report … More Cybercrime and the small business: Basic defensive measures

Final DNSChanger warning: 9th of July is cutoff date!

July 8, 2012

If the replaced DNSChanger servers don’t get another deadline extension, more than 500,000 computers may not be able to reach their configured DNS service after Monday, July 9, 2012.  In other words, it will be practically impossible for the users of those computers to surf the Internet using human friendly domain names like http://www.eset.com. That’s … More Final DNSChanger warning: 9th of July is cutoff date!