extent | DataProtectionCenter.com

Trust but verify: when CAs fall short

19

Feb

2013

We?ve recently experienced yet another case of a root certificate authority (CA from now on) losing control of its own certificates. And yet again, we have been waiting for either the CA or the browser to do something about it. This whole mess stems, once again, from both a governance and a technical problem. First, […]

Category General Written by Securelist / Blog 0 Comments

Hide and seek with site injections

11

Nov

2011

As we have seen many times before (e.g. Mal/Iframe-Gen, Mal/Iframe-W), compromised sites are frequently injected with large, heavily obfuscated blocks of JavaScript. The primary goal of such scripts is to make it hard for scanners to detect the payload (typically an iframe or script load). However, the side effect of large, ugly, obfuscated scripts is […]

Category General Written by Naked Security - Sophos 0 Comments

Twitter is not charging in October, there is no petition, you’re being phished

19

Aug

2011

Another scam to steal Twitter users credentials is making the rounds today. The tweets being sent out read “Twitter might start to charge in October, sign this petition to keep the service free! -URL-.” The official Twitter account, @safety, has warned people about the threat and it appears that the Twitter team is having partial […]

Category General Written by Naked Security - Sophos 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘extent’

Trust but verify: when CAs fall short

Hide and seek with site injections

Twitter is not charging in October, there is no petition, you’re being phished

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us