Google has launched a new initiative to encourage vulnerability researchers to report any security holes they find in the Google Chrome browser.
Anyone who find a bug in Chrome or Chromium, the open source code used as the foundations of Chrome, can receive between $500 and $1337 for reporting the problem to Google.
Bugs felt to be [...]Like many other people I'm on Twitter. Unlike most of the other websites which fall under the social networking umbrella, I've found it an essential part of my professional life - helping me share information about breaking internet threats and follow other interesting people from the computer security industry.
I post tweets most days about [...]Thanks to Clu-blog reader Jamie for contacting me regarding a scare that is currently spreading bewteen Facebook users.
Users of the social-networking site are warning each other of what is rumoured to be a rogue application, spying on their activities on Facebook. Users are told in the warning that they can find the "Unnamed app" [...]
A second man has admitted his role in a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against websites belonging to the highly controversial Scientology organisation that struck the sites in January 2008.
According to media reports, 20-year-old Brian Thomas Mettenbrink of Nebraska has signed a plea agreement confirming that he downloaded software from an anti-Scientology web forum with the [...]Top technology blog TechCrunch has been hacked for the second time in 24 hours, with visitors being greeted by an offensive message directed at site founder Michael Arrington.
Part of the message posted by the hacker reads:
So Arrington, how much did all the media coverage yesterday brought you in trough the welcome.html ad you
forced
people to? What [...]TechCrunch, one of the world's top blogs, has been hacked.
At approximately 6:20am GMT the site was replaced with this message, linking to a site containing links to adult and pirated material:
As far as we can tell at this point, the site was not infected with malware. If that is confirmed then we should all [...]
25 January: Updated to include video of the associated malware attack.
Hollywood movie actor Johnny Depp, famous for his roles in Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Pirates of the Caribbean, became the unwitting star of an internet hoax which spread widely this weekend.
Innocent internet users were fooled by the hoax, spreading messages to their online friends [...]Is it possible to prove that the recent hacks against Google, Adobe, and others were sponsored by the Chinese government?
It's not that easy.
You see, although there's unlikely to be anyone with a better motive for cracking into the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists, there's a lot of difference between a good motive and [...]
Yesterday, Mozilla released the latest version of its web browser Firefox and it comes with a rather nice-sounding security feature.
Firefox 3.6 claims to be faster than ever before, but that's not why it's caught my attention. The new functionality that I'm pleased to hear about is its ability to detect out-of-date plugins.
Plugins are those [...]
On Thursday there were sighs of relief from all corners as Microsoft released a security patch for a vulnerability that had been exploited by hackers.
The patch fixed a critical zero-day vulnerability in versions of Internet Explorer that would have meant visiting a boobytrapped webpage could have infected your computer, opening a backdoor for remote hackers.
Nasty [...]
In my last post I mentioned that the “Operation Aurora” exploit code was public and that we could expect other attacks leveraging the CVE-2010-0249 exploit to emerge. Given the significance of the recent earthquake in Haiti, and the slew of phishing sites, email scams, etc; it makes sense that attackers would try to incorporate an [...]
Seems the new year has brought out a few new findings. One being the newly discovered “God Mode” feature in Microsoft’s Windows 7 based operating systems. At its core, it’s basically a glorified control panel. It takes all the hard to get to, or annoying multiple right click -> properties -> options -> submenu -> [...]