According to Mr. Zimmer's statement, the IHG (Invisible Hacking Group) service worked like this: It requested the target person's email address, the names of friends or colleagues, and examples of topics that interest them. The hackers would then send an email to the target that sounded as if it came from an acquaintance, but which actually installed malicious software on the target's computer. The software would let the hackers capture the target's email password.

Dropbox security compromised (again) #security

Top ten iPhone passcodes: [1234, 0000, 2580, 1111, 5555, 5683, 0852, 2222, 1212, 1998]

Sign in on the Google Accounts homepage. If you use a hosted Google Apps account, sign in and visit https://www.google.com/a/example.com/ManageAccount, and replace "example.com" with your domain name.
Click the My Account link at the top right of the page.
Click Authorizing applications & sites. This page lists the third-party sites you selected to always approve for Google authentication.
Click the Revoke Access link for each site that displays this message next to the URL: 'Sign in using your Google Account.' This will disable Google authentication for a site.

RT @TechtonicTimes: "Situational awareness" #security

He said the creation of a reliable exploit was “much more difficult” than finding the vulnerability.

“There are many WebKit vulnerabilities. You can run a fuzzer and get lots of good results. But it’s much more difficult to exploit it on x64 and to make your exploit very reliable,” he said.

Bekrar’s winning exploit did not even crash the browser after exploitation. Within five seconds of surfing to the rigged site, he successfully launched the calculator app and wrote a file on the disk without crashing the browser.

The victim visits a web page, he gets owned. No other interaction is needed.

Mac - www.strongvpn.com
Mac - www.hidemyass.com/vpn
Windows - www.allanonymity.com/ip-hider-hide-ip-software/

$4.99 - How do you know this works?

RT @Roanhouse: FBI may have planted backdoors in Unix affecting OSX #security #privacy #apple #linux #unix #mac #osx

RT @newsoflinux Fake Hallmark Christmas card emails carry malware #security #malware #moms

RT @NewsOfLinux Half of phishing victims expose their credentials within the first hour #security #moms

Sophos releases business-strength anti-virus for mac #mac #macbook #Dell #laptop #apple #security #moms #parenting

little snitch 2.2.4 released Jul 12th 2010

spreading locally via malicious USB drives or remotely via network shares and WebDAV

DNS rebinding

First off, open Keychain Access.app (located in /Applications/Utilities/). Once there, scroll through the list of keys until you find the one that you're looking for. Double click on it and check the box that says, "Show Password." Once you authenticate with your user credentials, your forgotten password will be displayed in the text box.

check out the demo page

What your email address says abt your computer skills #security #parenting #privacy @GuyKawasaki

Linkedin has proved particularly popular with fraudsters

Check and fix your Facebook privacy settings in less than a minute #Facebook #security #privacy #parenting #moms

Fake email attacks HR departments @darkreading #HR #security #malware

Review your Gmail filters from time to time. Make sure you recognize all of them #security

Microsoft MSN Messenger was the key hackers used to attack Google

Make certain you know the URL before clicking on it

So now we know. No browser is safe #security

How "This You????" attack works #security #parenting #kids #moms #home #mac

Almost all social networks use URLs that leak private information #security #twitter #facebook #Google #parenting

Botnet targetting home DSL modems #security #DSL #parenting #home

it became clear that security teams must rethink their entire perspective on advanced threats #security #malware

Off-the-shelf method to beat credit /debit card authentication exists #security

Malware infested sites to avoid #security

Apple patches 12 Mac OS X vulnerabilities #mac #security

Google attack code made public #security #dell #mac #microsoft #internet #learning

Chinese govt may already have all information abt you that's stored by Google, Gmail #security #privacy #mac #gmail

How to access sites blocked by your IT dept. #security #backdoor #mac

Telltale signs you're being attacked #security #mac