Private browsing: it’s not so private

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Research by Stanford University to investigate the privacy of the "private browsing" feature of many Web browsers suggests that the tools aren't all that private after all, and that many kinds of information can be leaked by browsers when using the mode. The paper is due to be presented next week ...

OpenDNS Can Help Protect Against DNS Rebinding Attacks

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

This feature has been around for a while but I wanted to make sure everybody knows that if you are an OpenDNS customer you have a nice option in your Control Panel to help protect against DNS Rebinding attacks.  This feature is turned off by default but you can enable ...

Most SSL Sites Poorly Configured

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

The good news about SSL-based websites: Most are running strong encryption. The bad news: More than 60 percent aren't properly configured.Researcher Ivan Ristic, who is director of engineering, Web application firewall, and SSL at Qualys, revealed findings here yesterday from a study he conducted of some 120 million registered domain ...

171 Million Facebook Profiles Scraped

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Turns out that Facebook has a directory where you can get a list of all searchable FB users:https://www.facebook.com/directoryThese are now scraped and the torrent file is available for download for anybody who wants it.More info:http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=887

Update Google Chrome

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Google Chrome 5.0.375.125 has been released to the Stable channel on Linux, Mac, Windows, and Chrome Frame.Download:http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en