Apple released OS X Lion v10.7.3 and the Security Update 2012-001 to address some vulnerabilities in various components. All the fixes are important, but these can have a direct negative effect on your personal privacy and security because they can be very easily exploited: Address book – An attacker in a privileged network position may […]
DigiNotar — the CA that got hacked — announced bankruptcy yesterday (read the release). This is a very clear case where a company folded because it was hacked. However, this is not the first time something similar has happened. Earlier this year an Australian hosting provider called Distribute.IT was badly hacked and had no recoverable […]
In techie circles bringing up the topic of security through obscurity is like bringing up religion or politics at a cocktail party where you don’t know anybody. It might go over really well, or you might find people calling you names that my friends in HR would chastise (or fire) me for printing in the […]
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