Mozilla performs antivirus scans on add-ons that are added by developers to the add-on repository. These add-ons are then offered as experimental add-ons until they pass a human review which adds them fully to the add-on directory.
It came to light today that two add-ons that have been offered at the add-on repository had been infected [...]
Mozilla Promises Better Virus Scanning After Virus Faux Pas
Avira Malware File-Extension Statistics
Malware is a generic term for trojans, viruses, worms, keyloggers, rootkits and other malicious code. The Avira blog has posted an interesting statistic about the malware that gets distributed by urls either in emails, on websites or other ways. Most computer users probably associated file types like exe as dangerous when they encounter them on [...]
RockYou Hacked. Some 30 million passwords in the wild [Security]
RockYou, a service that offers applications like slideshows, games, layouts and more for social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace or Orkut that of the network’s users seem to love so much was recently hacked and the service’s entire database of 30+ million data sets exposed. This alone would have been problematic but the situation grew [...]
Yubico USB Key Provides Extra Login Protection [Security]
Password theft is a common problem on the Internet these days. Attackers use numerous ways to steal login credentials from users including phishing attacks via email, brute force attacks that try to guess the password, trojans and computer viruses or keyloggers that record every keystroke of the user.
The best protection against those kind of attacks [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Nov 17th, 2009
- Comments: 7
Let Password Gorilla store all of your passwords
If you’re like me (and I know you are) you have an endless assortment of passwords stored in your head. And, again, if you’re like me your age is defying your memory such that your brain isn’t always so quick to recall that endless stream of random characters you have for passwords (and you know [...]
After Cyborg Beetles We Now Have Sniffer Bees
Next time you visit an airport, there’s a chance of you being sniffed by, not dogs, but bees. Yes, they are now down to training bees to sniff and apparently it is proving to be extremely successful.
While the cyborg beetles in my last post are still nowhere near practical implementation, these sniffer bees are already [...]
F-Secure Health Check 2.0 Beta Ditches ActiveX
F-Secure Health Check is a web application that can perform a health check of a local Microsoft Windows operating system. A health check is basically divided into three areas of interest that are checked and an assessment in the end that lists possible solutions to the problems encountered. Area one will check for installed security [...]