The CIA website at cia.gov is currently inaccessible, having apparently fallen foul of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by hackers. Almost inevitably, fingers are pointing towards the notorious LulzSec hacktivist group who have made a name for themselves recently with a series of attacks against corporations, organisations and websites – sometimes forcing them offline, and […]
Are you one of the many people who is using a dangerously easy-to-guess passcode on your iPhone? Maybe you should do something about it – sooner rather than later. The warning comes after new research suggested that 15% of all iPhone owners use one of just ten passwords on their lock screen: Apple iPhone app […]
“Cookiejacking,” anyone? In the last few days, a new vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer has made its way through the media. Disclosed at the Hack on the Box conference by the independent researcher Rosario Valotta, this flaw takes advantage of a property of HTML5 to steal the cookies from its victim. This kind of attack, […]
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