Archive for the 'Security' Category

Vulnerability Numerology - Defective by Design?

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

On Slashdot, rdmreader : writes:

“RDM has a point by point disassembly of the security vulnerability story phenomenon. We regularly see these, comparing various vulnerability lists for different operating systems. ZDNet’s George Ou, for example, condemns linux and mac os X by tallying up reported flaws and comparing them against Microsoft’s. What he doesn’t note [...]

Hackers hijack web search results

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Full article: BBC NEWS | Technology | Hackers hijack web search results

Hackers hijack web search results
By Mark Ward © BBC MMVII

A huge campaign to poison web searches and trick people into visiting malicious websites has been thwarted. The booby-trapped websites came up in search results for search terms such as “Christmas gifts” and “hospice”.

Windows [...]