Another IE7 Vulnerability
IE7 has only been on release for a week, but Secunia are reporting another vulnerability along with a working proof-of-concept. This one is about spoofing the address bar in a pop-up window, and has...
View ArticleWho Would Want to Bomb Paypal?
According to this article from the CBS news for San Jose, someone bombed the offices of Paypal on the night of Halloween. It would be easy to joke about an Ebay transaction gone way, way wrong, but for...
View ArticleFired for losing a laptop.
A worker from Boeing has been fired, after their laptop was stolen. The laptop was holding data for nearly 400,000 retired Boeing workers, and included home address, home telephone number, social...
View ArticleGot an MP3 player? You’re under arrest.
Yesterday, the Daily Mail carried this story about a hapless – and innocent – chap who was arrested by gunpoint after a member of the public mistook the MP3 player in his pocket for a gun. The story...
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IT Security: the little things matter
I was on the train the other day when I saw the guy beside me get up and walk off to the toilet. He left his laptop unlocked. It would take, what, a second to hit Alt/Ctrl & Del to lock the screen...
View ArticleChannel 4’s DataBaby Project
Channel 4 in the UK have launched an interesting experiment called Data Baby. Using the online persona of a fictional 27 year-old woman called Rebecca Taylor, the idea is to highlight just how easily...
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