by Joseph Forbes | Apr 11, 2013 | DATA, EDUCATION, HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
from the hacker-mom dept. Research suggests there will be a rise in everyday hackers. A simple Google search for ‘SQL injection hack’ provides 1.74 million results, including videos with explicit instructions on how to exploit SQL injection...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 10, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the or-perhaps-a-catalog-of-people-doing-dangerous-things dept. This is an article about a search engine that is designed to look for devices on the net that are not really intended to be viewed and used by the general public. Devices include pool filters,...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 10, 2013 | Microsoft Security Response Center, SECURITY
Windows XP was originally released on August 24, 2001. Since that time, high-speed Internet connections and wireless networking have gone from being a rarity to the norm, and Internet usage has grown from 360 million to almost two-and-a-half billion users. Thanks to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 10, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY
The back-up registries were announced shortly after gTLD rollout security concerns were raised by Verisign and others The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY
Enterprise and carrier executives see more control, faster provisioning in the still-developing software-defined networking technology Some network operators say they need new tools to set up and manage connections in a virtualized world, even if that means adopting...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
Protip: don’t install an Android application package file if it’s named “Certificate.apk”. It’s not legit (obviously). Trojan:Android/Pincer.A is able to forward SMS messages and perform other actions based on commands it receives from...
