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Firefox Extension Boosts Browser Security

The Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) made available a Firefox extension developed at their School of Computer Science and College of Engineering that improves security in Firefox by protecting against man-in-the-middle attacks. The extension, named Perspectives, is available only for Firefox 3 and works on Windows, L...

26 August 2008
09:05 GMT

Gmail Account Automatic Hacking Tool Presented at Defcon

A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas.Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, and ...

11 August 2008
11:57 GMT

Google with Major Security Goof-Up

Accessing the Google Account through AdWords, AdSense, Analytics is proving rather tricky these days, and not only for the services mentioned above, but for every Google property that requires SSL certification. Nobody wants to see a security warning when they want to see how well their advertising is going, thoughts...

6 March 2008
15:51 GMT

Thou Shall Not Trust the Anti-Fraud Sign

Change the way you're thinking about the SSL certification, for it is not that safe, researchers from Netcraft advised. Don't go rushing ahead and provide all the personal information, for it might get stolen, and other phrases to that effect. Why's that? Because the companies assuring that the site is...

6 March 2008
08:36 GMT

After Linux, Microsoft Now Shows Some Windows Vista Love to Apache

Securing data from web-based applications is just an aspect of keeping information safe. In this context, an encryption framework will do the trick of keeping sensitive data confidential. And this is where Secure Socket Layer and Transport Layer Security come into play, along with Apache. When it comes down to bridgi...

7 January 2008
06:12 GMT




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