Yesterday’s post generated some feedback along the lines of “interesting theory”. But here’s the deal, that other companies were hacked is not a theory — it’s a fact. Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, Joe Sullivan, said so himself in an interview with Ars Technica. According to Sullivan, Facebook’s security team worked with a third-party to sinkhole […]
Friday, February 1st: Twitter announced it was hacked. The post (Keeping our users secure) by Bob Lord, Director of Information Security, was sparse on details but recommended disabling Java’s browser plugin. And according to Lord, the attackers “were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.” Friday, February […]
This month brings some interesting updates from the Microsoft central security team’s regular notification service for December 11 2012. The Microsoft Security Bulletin Notification for December 2012 contains seven bulletins; with five of then listed as “critical” and two ranking as “important” overall. In Bulletin 1 we see a risk of “remote code execution” affecting […]
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