Last week, security researcher Roy Castillo posted a recount of interactions with Facebook about a bug that he had found. The bug allowed…
Month: July 2013
How to encrypt your email
Given recent events and worries about data-leaks and other privacy issues, you might find it handy to have some tools to…
Apple’s OS X FBI Ransomware Goes Global
Last week we blogged about how Apple’s Mac OS X users are vulnerable to the FBI Ransomware attacks. These social engineering…
Bi-Directional Trickery, (╯°□°)╯︵ oןɹ
Malware authors are known to try various obfuscation techniques in order to hide their malware. The Unicode Right-to-Left trick (RLO), which has…
New App Fixes Bluebox Android Vulnerability, But Requires Root
A few weeks ago, we wrote about an Android master key flaw discovered by Bluebox Labs that allowed modification of APK…
Tumblr Security Hole Reveals Passwords
Tumblr released an update for their iOS apps after a recently discovered security hole first reported by The Register discovered by one…
Q&A About The Latest HTML Ransomware Affecting Mac OS X users
The post I wrote about the FBI Ransomware Now Targeting Apple’s Mac OS X users has received a lot of attention. Perhaps it…
FBI Ransomware Now Targeting Apple’s Mac OS X Users
For years, Windows users have been plagued by ransomware demanding several hundred dollars to unlock their computers. The bad guys know…
Tile: Crowdsourcing Lost Keys Or Pseudo GPS Stalking On The Cheap?
Tracking devices are not a new thing. You’ve seen them in film, where a secret agent (or Batman) bugs a criminal…
Facebook’s Graph Search: Personal Information Search On Steroids For The Masses
Facebook has slowly been rolling out a new search feature this year called Graph Search. This new ‘product’ is said to…