Ad blockers represent the largest consumer boycott in human history. They’re also an arms race between the blockers and the blocker blockers. This article discusses a new ad-blocking technology that represents another advance in this arms race. I don’t think it will “put an end to the ad-blocking arms race,” as the title proclaims, but … Read More “Advances in Ad Blocking” »
Category: Security technology
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It’s things like this that make phishing attacks easier. News article. Powered by WPeMatico
Wow, is this cool. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Powered by WPeMatico
Interesting article from Brian Krebs. Powered by WPeMatico
The US Drug Enforcement Agency has purchased zero-day exploits from the cyberweapons arms manufacturer Hacking Team. BoingBoing post. Powered by WPeMatico
This is impressive: The proof-of-concept exploit uses a low-cost transmitter to embed malicious commands into a rogue TV signal. That signal is then broadcast to nearby devices. It worked against two fully updated TV models made by Samsung. By exploiting two known security flaws in the Web browsers running in the background, the attack was … Read More “Smart TV Hack via the Broadcast Signal” »
Researchers build a covert channel between two virtual machines using a shared cache. Powered by WPeMatico
Since Edward Snowden revealed to the world the extent of the NSA’s global surveillance network, there has been a vigorous debate in the technological community about what its limits should be. Less discussed is how many of these same surveillance techniques are used by other — smaller and poorer — more totalitarian countries to spy … Read More “Surveillance and our Insecure Infrastructure” »
In another symptom of climate change, Chile’s largest squid producer “plans to diversify its offering in the future, selling sea urchin, cod and octopus, to compensate for the volatility of giant squid catches….” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. … Read More “Friday Squid Blogging: Chilean Squid Producer Diversifies” »
Carnegie Mellon University has released a comprehensive list of C++ secure-coding best practices. Powered by WPeMatico