security

“Your average wide-view outdoor security camera can see that at eight minutes past two in the morning, someone threw a brick through a shop window, grabbed something and then ran off. But as far as identifying the offender goes, the source...

“ So I have this friend. I've told him time and time again how dangerous XSS vulnerabilities are, and how XSS is now the most common of all publicly reported security vulnerabilities -- dwarfing old standards like buffer overruns and source...

“ For all the viruses, malware, and exploits that crawl around the web, fundamental flaws in the system are supposed to be few and far between, but the last two months have proven to be an exception to the rule. source...

“"I have been helping a guy with a project," seebs wrote, "I wasn't originally involved, but when the three-month project was six-months late, I got called in to start on the other half. I still remember the sick feeling in source...

“YouTube is dreaming of a warm, fuzzy future in which erstwhile video pirates clink steins with media CEOs — the viewing needs of the one at last aligned with the pay schedules of the other — and boozily toast the source...

“There's a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your JesusPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari. The two-step source...

“ Using words like "misdirection," "obfuscation," "absurd" and "verbal gymnastics," the Federal Communications Commission released its formal decision Wednesday ordering Comcast to stop throttling BitTorrrent traffic, a practice the carrier has repeatedly denie source...

“ The British government is to data protection as Hurricane Katrina was to New Orleans property values. In the past we have covered the loss of data, including bank details, for 25 million people, and government intelligence documents seem to source...

“The more links there are to a site, the more popular the search engines figure it is, and the higher up in the search results it ends up. Blog spam, therefore, is frequently thought to be a good way to source...

Great chart showing the probability of a hash collision for different hash lengths.

“The ubiquity of secure online transactions often makes us take them for granted.  Most people will happily type their credit card and other personal information into a web form and hit Submit, as long as they see that little padlock in source...

“ newVideoPlayer("/iphonesecurityflaw_gizmodo.flv", 520, 410,""); Apple has acknowledged the huge iPhone security flaw we tested and reported on two days ago, promising an update for September that will fix the hole that can expose all your private emails, text messages, and source...

“ZoneAlarm users are being told by the company to install the latest version of the affected software, switch Internet Zone Slider to "medium" or uninstall the Windows DNS update. CheckPoint also recommends not installing or uninstalling the DNS update as source...

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“How he got his hands on the goods, we don't yet know. But today, police visited the home of a Culver City man and arrested him on suspicion of violating federal copyright law by posting nine previously unreleased Guns N' source...