by Alex Eckelberry | May 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Attorney General of Pennsylvania (and Republican candidate for governor) Tom Corbett has subpoenaed Twitter to find the identities of “bfbarbie” and “CasablancaPA.”News accounts say Corbett wants information on the two accounts because they...
by Alex Eckelberry | May 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
CSS are watching youResearchers Artur Janc and Lukasz Olejnik have made public a paper “Feasibility and Real-World Implications of Web Browser History Detection” that describes how a decade old “feature” of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allows Web sites to...
by Alex Eckelberry | May 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
FB does a fast takedownA researcher we know who prefers not to be named found this on the Zynga game Mafia Wars. When you shared it, you were offered a free gift if you completed a survey.The free gift you got was an installation of MyWebSearch which Sunbelt detects...
by Alex Eckelberry | May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
There has been an explosion of rogue security products with different names in the last year – which is clearly an attempt to avoid detection by the rogue peddlers. Now the names of LEGITIMATE companies’ LEGITIMATE products are getting mixed up with...
by Alex Eckelberry | May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
“…fire and burn hazard.”Hewlett-Packard has announced it has expanded the May 14, 2009, recall of its laptop battery packs. The company will replace the defective batteries at no cost to customers.The notice on the HP site said “HP and the battery...
