[ad] Well I would have thought these guys should have had a little better security.. The Department of Homeland Security received an F (Failing) grade in cybersecurity from the House Government Reform Committee for the third year in a row. The Committee will likely give the Fed a D+ overall for its cybersecurity efforts. The […]
Archives for April 2006
CIA Employees Identified Online
[ad] Pretty Scary eh? Although some people do call them the Central Lack-of Intelligence Agency. Privacy is a major issue and well people should be a little more careful about what they reveal online, perhaps I’ll rehash my old Google Hacking Presentation and write it up as a post for Darknet. I guess it would […]
Serious Vulnerability/Flaw Found in GPG – GnuPG
[ad] Just in case you didn’t read it, found this one in the archives. A serious problem in the use of GPG to verify digital signatures has been discovered, which also affects the use of gpg in email. It is possible for an attacker to take any signed message and inject extra arbitrary data without […]
China taking control of it’s own DNS servers
[ad] China are moving further away from the rest of the world when it comes to the Internet, taking control, making sure information doesn’t get out and making sure other people don’t have access to anything behind the Great Firewall of China. China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has made adjustment to China’s Internet domain […]
AJAX: Is your application secure enough?
Introduction We see it all around us, recently. Web applications get niftier by the day by utilising the various new techniques recently introduced in a few web-browsers, like I.E. and Firefox. One of those new techniques involves using Javascript. More specifically, the XmlHttpRequest-class, or object. Webmail applications use it to quickly update the list of […]