Robert McMillan

Articles by Robert McMillan

Phishers user chat-in-the-middle technique

Phishers are chatting up victims by using open source live-chat software Jabber on bogus banking website to gain financial data...

Google offers government cloud computing services

Begining next year, Google will be offering cloud computing services designed especially to meet U.S. government agencies regulatory requirements...

Attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption

Japanese computer scientists decipher encrypted traffic sent between computers and routers that use Wi-Fi protected access encryption...

More holes found in Web’s SSL security protocol

At Black Hat, researchers say these bugs could be used with null termination certificates to create undetectable man-in-the middle attacks. Find out about the new vulnerabilities found by Dan Kaminsky

RIM says UAE carrier’s Blackberry update is spyware

Etisalat's BlackBerry update was supposedly meant to improve the performance of the smartphone actually contained software that spies on user activity

Iranian cyber-activists use social nets to cut out the middleman

YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have led the mainstream media's coverage of the events in Iran this week and enabled Iranians and supporters of the protesters share information, even within the centrally controlled Internet service

Web mail company to pay $10K prize after CEO hacked

Three hackers were able to break into the account of StrongWebmail

Twitter hit with phishing attacks

Hundreds of twitterers that received directions to a funny blog fell prey to phishers that hijacked user account to use them as springboards for other attacks

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