I’m going to cast my vote as ‘no’. It’s like this article states; companies are more focused on producing the technology and making it function properly than its security. This is pretty sad to think about, because these decisions will eventually come back to the company that produced the technology, but this time […]

When it comes to security, one of the most renowned conferences is the Black Hat conference. The conference discusses a wide array of computer security topics as well as demonstrations to prove technological weaknesses and threats. Well, it looks like one of the security presenters was going too far with his RFID […]

It all has to do with a specific kind of bug in certain Microsoft Office 2003 Applications. If an attacker wants to crash one of these apps, all they would have to do is design and deliver a specially crafted malformed file to the user. Upon opening the file, the app would crash. […]

While these vulnerable tech support tools are primarily geared towards corporate entities such as Time Warner and Comcast, a variety of vulnerabilities have been found in the support tools provided by SupportSoft that can be exploited to run arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. This could mean that your account data with any of […]

It looks like Norton is making a step in the right direction when it comes to consumer expectations of security software. Their newest product comes fully automated, so that the user doesn’t even have to deal with pop-ups or updates anymore. The whole “set it and forget it” is really proving its worth […]

While Google was able to quickly patch the security vulnerability in their popular Desktop software, a risk still remains. The risk does not have to do with a vulnerability though, it has to do with the software itself. Just the idea of intermixing the Web and someone’s private hard drive together screams security […]

It seems that more and more people are talking about this, which can only mean more and more people are falling victim to this scheme. If you are ever at an airport and you find some hotspot with an SSID of ‘free wifi’ or something similar, you probably shouldn’t connect to it. These ‘free’ hotspots […]

It was recently discovered by Watchfire that those who use Google Desktop are prone to having their data stolen if they are using old versions of the program. Unfortunately, with the huge phenomenon that is Google, I have a feeling that hackers and the like will be taking full advantage of this vulnerability for quite […]

This attack just goes to show you how many computers are not secured on the Internet. Before these attacks were launched, they created malicious replicas of each bank which would install malicious code on to the victim’s computer. The malicious software on the websites were based off of exploiting a Microsoft vulnerability….one that […]

Here is an interesting situation; a hacker breaks into a person’s computer through the use of malware, finds child pornography on the victim’s computer, and the victim goes to jail.
But what about the hacker? Should anything bad happen to him for illegally breaking into the victim’s computer, or should he be praised for his […]