My Microsoft AdCenter account has been hacked and a bill of £400 run up for a short campaign pointing to http://alloads.info/yahoo-messenger/. Interestingly, the problem was first identified by my credit card company, who promptly declined the unusual payments coming from Microsoft in the US. So how did this happen? Microsoft claim my username was used [...]

Here we go again, another major security breach where we discover a serious lack of controls at a major corporation. Sony announced that credit card information has been put at risk. Also, reports have suggested that Sony were storing passwords without encryption. The security of personal data is a major area of concern as we’re [...]

Mobile phone security has greatly improved since the days when it was child’s play to intercept phone calls. While the technology has improved, users have become complacent. This is well known with the way access controls are neglected. Examples of this are weak passwords, using the same password for multiple systems, recording passwords on post-it [...]

Your running a 10.5 server with (SUS) software update services and you’ve got 10.6 clients on your network. You want to patch your 10.6 clients but they won’t with 10.5 SUS. The Apple solution is to upgrade the server to 10.6 so it can serve 10.6 updates. An alternative solution is to use the following hack on the 10.5 SUS. [...]

A few years ago I completed an MSc in Information Security. For the final project thesis I did an investigation into the effectiveness and usability of the security products (Microsoft Widows Vista being one of them) specifically focusing on use within a uncontrolled environment. In the thesis I defined the consumer Internet environment as the uncontrolled environment. This is because [...]

Macintosh Security Company Intego, the developers of VirusBarrier have released a report on Mac and iPhone security for 2009.

The report focuses on various Trojan horse attacks, malware found in Torrent application downloads, attacks on jailbroken iPhones, Mac OS X vulnerabilities and third party vulnerabilities. [...]