That square QR barcode on the poster? Check it’s not a sticker A pretty ingenius, but evil hack: make your own QR codes, print them out on sticker paper, then slap them on a well-known company/movie/band/product poster or billboard. Point them at an exploitive website and you’ve got yourself a…
If you are not paranoid about using open Wifi service at coffee shops, hotels, and other public establishments, you should be. Time and time again it has been proven that such locales can be extremely dangerous for doing mundane things such as checking your email or posting to your Facebook…
The vulnerability that sat undetected for 7 years was disclosed last week, but today it has been announced that exploits have been seen in the wild. They are working on releasing a new patch. This is pretty bad as it’s not exploiting one particular web application, rather, it is exploiting…
Did you know that Facebook gets a report every time you visit a site with a Facebook “Like” button, even if you never click the button, are not a Facebook user, or are not logged in? That, and more you should be aware of here in this Consumer Reports article.…
I have been cleaning up a lot of hacked websites/malware and doing security updates and hardening for WordPress websites lately. Ideally I’d be able to lock down a client’s server more thoroughly, implement a good firewall, and run some intrusion detection software, but since many people can’t afford this sort…
Well, this doesn’t look good. Perhaps most disturbing is all the secrecy surrounding the issue on behalf MC and Visa. Security breaches require transparency, not secrecy. Warning over ‘massive’ MasterCard, Visa security breach
