Archive for May 4th, 2010

Consumer Reports “State of the Net:” not too secure

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Consumer Reports “State of the Net:” not too secure

Consumer Reports has published results of its “State of the Net” survey in the June 2010 magazine. Bottom line: there are twice as many people using social media as a year ago and a lot of them aren’t very security aware.The study of 2,000 househ... »

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Researchers hack BitTorrent, track users

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Researchers hack BitTorrent, track users

French researchers have found that large amounts of content on BitTorrent is supplied by a relatively small number of people according to a paper presented at the Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emerging Threats in San Francisco.The researc... »

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Facebook Remote Login + Flash drive = stolen credentials

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Facebook Remote Login + Flash drive = stolen credentials

I was in the local library at the weekend, and noticed something a little bit odd at the computer terminal section. A flash drive was sticking out of one of the PCs – more often than not, this is evidence of shenanigans and computers that really shou... »

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