Yet again, social engineering proves the easiest way to breach security…
There’s lots of news about the latest release of classified documents on Wikileaks. If you want to have a peek, The Guardian has a great visualisation to get started. I had a mooch. Everything I scanned through was thoroughly boring. As is the case with most information, even the classified stuff…
Spotted a depressing article on Techmeme on Friday – Hackers turn Google into a vulnerability scanner (Infoworld). I suppose it was inevitable that this would happen. Hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) have kindly released a tool that uses Google to automatically scour web sites for sensitive information. Because it is automatic, it [...]
Nicholas Carr wrote another post about the emerging world of giant data centres (yup, English-English spelling on this post as opposed to English-US) – Google’s Cloud – describing how Google wants to host all of our data and our applications. Microsoft is pursuing a similar strategy through its Live plans. Whilst there are lots of [...]
An interesting blog post has highlighted how Gmail accounts can be hacked – Google Email Hijack Technique. Aside from the issue that it appears quite easy for someone/thing who knows what they are doing to start snooping on your email (more than slightly worrying), the blog post highlights a new security challenge for anyone beginning [...]
