Who is responsible for malware in ads, Web site owners or ad networks and delivery firms? Matt Drudge and Michael Arrington found themselves this week in an unpleasant position when visitors to their respective Drudge Report and TechCrunch sites were targeted by malware that appeared to have come from ads...
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When malware strikes via bad ads on good sites
Posted by kai 3 hours ago (http://feeds.digg.com)Wartungs-Update für Apple Safari
Posted by kai 1 day 21 hours ago (http://rss.feedsportal.com)
Apples Webbrowser Safari 4.0.5 soll unter Mac OS und Windows stabiler, sicherer und schneller laufen als sein Vorgänger.
Feds: TSA Worker Tried to Sabotage Terror Database
Posted by kai 1 day 23 hours ago (http://feeds.digg.com)
A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security workers and others. The malicious code, a logic bomb installed last October, was designed to cause damage and disrupt data on servers on an undisclosed date...
Googles Webbrowser Chrome verzichtet auf eindeutige ID
Posted by kai 1 day 23 hours ago (http://rss.feedsportal.com)
Ab Version 4.1 wird Chrome das Token sofort nach der Installation löschen und nimmt mit diesem eher symbolischen Schritt Kritikern den Wind aus den Segeln.
Super Stealth Plane Breaks Through Cost Barrier
Posted by kai 2 days ago (http://feeds.digg.com)
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing today on the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and things are not looking pretty for the next-generation stealth aircraft. It now appears likely the Air Force will have to declare the program has soared past a key cost-containment barrier, in addition to being over 2 years behind schedule.
10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer
Posted by kai 2 days ago (http://feeds.digg.com)
For many years, the Internet was the “final frontier,” operating largely unregulated — in part because of the jurisdictional nightmare involved in trying to enforce laws. That was then; this is now. Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels.
LimeWire enlists AVG for user protection
Posted by kai 2 days ago (http://feeds.digg.com)
Notorious as a malware ghetto, LimeWire takes its first steps to integrate authoritative threat protection by signing on AVG to provide premium users with download scanning and blocking.
SecurityFocus vor dem (Teil-) Aus
Posted by kai 2 days ago (http://rss.feedsportal.com)
Bereits kommende Woche beginnt Symantec mit dem Überführen der meisten Daten in das hauseigene Symantec Connect.
RSA 1024-bits Key Encryption Cracked
Posted by kai 2 days ago (http://feeds.digg.com)
Scientist from the University of Michigan reports to have found a weakness in the key encryption system used for almost all authentication process. They also describe the associated way to exploit it to crack the key in about 100 hours while it would have taken years by brute force attack. Most ...
ICANN-Chef eckt mit DNS-Sicherheitswarnung an
Posted by kai 2 days ago (http://rss.feedsportal.com)
Mit seiner Warnung vor einer akuten Gefährdung des Domain Name Systems zieht sich ICANN-Chef Rod Beckstrom den Unmut der Domainbetreiber zu. Die fürchten, die Regierungen könnten die falsche Schlüsse ziehen.
EFF: New Smart Meters for Energy Use Put Privacy at Risk
Posted by kai 2 days ago (http://feeds.digg.com)
The ebb and flow of gas and electricity into your home contains surprisingly detailed information about your daily life. Energy usage data, measured moment by moment, allows the reconstruction of a household's activities: when people wake up, when they come home, when they go on vacation, and maybe even when they take a hot bath...
Exploit für neue IE-Lücke
Posted by kai 3 days ago (http://rss.feedsportal.com)
Für die neue Lücke im Internet Explorer 6 und 7 ist jetzt ein öffentlich verfügbarer Exploit aufgetaucht. Damit dürfte Microsoft in Zugzwang geraten, einen außerplanmäßigen Patch zu veröffentlichen.
Government No-Fly List Includes the Dead
Posted by kai 3 days ago (http://feeds.digg.com)
You may be dying, figuratively, to get off the government's no-fly list, but death won't guarantee removal. The government's no-fly list includes the names of dead suspects, according to government officials who spoke with the Associated Press, to help catch people who may try to assume the suspect’s identity...
How does a parent handle cyberbullying?
Posted by kai 3 days ago (http://feeds.digg.com)
What's a parent to do when their child is being bullied relentlessly by peers on Facebook? School administrators say they have no control over what happens outside of school.
heise-Security-Konferenz: Frühbucherrabatt verlängert
Posted by kai 3 days ago (http://rss.feedsportal.com)
Wer sich bis zum 24. März anmeldet, erhält 10 Prozent Rabatt auf den Preis zur Teilnahme an der Konferenz "Sicherheit in einer verteilten Welt".
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