Mass Cell Phone Tracking

According to a CNET article, the Department of Justice is attempting to gain access to cell phone tower data. The government is not requesting access to specific call records, but is…

Valentine’s Day Malware

The Valentine’s Day malware is making its rounds. Disguised as ecards or greetings, the malware hopes to entice unsuspecting recipients into clicking on the links which are sent in email. Once clicked, the recipient gets a whole bunch of surprises…

Holy Cow Adobe! 16 Months!

Threatpost is reporting that a known issue with Adobe Flash has been unchecked for 16 months. Apparently a procedural error and buzz around the pending Flash 10 release led…

Encrypted IM Using Pidgin

Public instant messaging platforms such Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger or Windows Live Messenger offers instant messaging services that are highly attractive to individuals and organizations. The provider has already paid…

Is Internet Explorer Safe?

After find out that Internet Explorer 6 was one of the key vectors in the Google hack attack, both Germany and France have warned its citizens…

When The TSA Is At Your Door…

In response to the attempted Christmas day attack, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, published a secret directive of new airline procedures. The directive did not stay secret for long, and was published…

New Year’s Resolutions

As we roll into a new year, we felt that it’s appropriate to make a few New Year’s Resolutions. The new year is a good time to refocus on our work and to recognise areas where we need improvement. We’ve…

Twitter Attacked

According to this Twitter status page, the root cause of the Twitter outage was a DNS compromise. They are continuing to investigate, and they have not published a final status.