Yesterday AP’s Twitter account hack led to US stock markets losing billions of dollars before recovering. So how secure is your Twitter password? How secure are your other social media accounts? What apps have access to them? Do you know? Do you recognise all of them? And for fun you can try out this “tool” […]
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Mobile App Security Infographic
The guys over at Realex Payments have put together a nice and simple graphic showing a number of key security tips for mobile apps. Source
Comreg Warn Businesses About VOIP Phone Hacks
The Irish communications regulator, ComReg, has issued a warning to Irish businesses about PBX hacking. Apparently Irish businesses are being targetted by hackers who are then able to abuse business phone systems to make phone calls and run up massive bills. Comreg report that they’ve had over 16 cases reported to them in the last […]
Anonymous Target Irish Government Sites In Possible OpIreland Sequel
Anonymous have seemingly launched an attack targetting Irish government websites including revenue.ie. Previous Anonymous actions against Ireland took place during the controversy surrounding copyright legislation in early 2012. At the time and again now, the action was referred to as “OpIreland” They published a press release via Youtube to inform the Irish government of what […]
Google Offers Guidance To Website Owners Whose Sites Have Been Hacked
Websites get hacked all the time. No matter what kind of website compromise is involved it’s still an annoying and traumatic issue for website owners. Google have released a number of videos and guides to help website owners deal with the issues if they arise. The videos and tips don’t assume any technical knowledge – […]
Evernote Forces Password Change
Evernote appear to have been the target of an attempted hack. As a result of the issue they’ve unilaterally reset all user passwords, though apart from a post on their blog, which is currently unreachable, they don’t appear to have informed users of the change. You can reset your password via the Evernote site.
Pinterest Contacting Users Potentially Affected By ZenDesk Breach
Pinterest has been contacting users of the social network who may have been affected by the ZenDesk security breach. The security breach affected 3 of Zendesk’s clients and Pinterest was one of them. The other two were Twitter and Tumblr. Text below: We recently learned that the vendor we use to answer support requests and […]
Anonymous Targetting Zynga
Zynga laid off a staff the same day that the tech media were distracted with Apple’s launch. Now Anonymous are coming after them – or at least this video claims that they are: [youtube]http://youtu.be/OG1ypqhWDQ0[/youtube] They’ve also made available the transcript of the video (since it’s a computer generated voice) as well as files that they’re […]
Google.ie Hijacked?
It looks like Google.ie has been hijacked The current whois record shows: whois google.ie % Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96 % Do not remove this notice domain: google.ie descr: Google, Inc descr: Body Corporate (Ltd,PLC,Company) descr: Registered Trade Mark Name admin-c: KR59-IEDR tech-c: CCA7-IEDR registration: 21-March-2002 renewal: 21-March-2013 status: Active nserver: ns1.farahatz.net nserver: ns2.farahatz.net […]
AppSec Ireland Application Security Conference
The OWASP AppSec Ireland conference is now in its 4th year. This year’s event will run from September 4th to September 6th. The conference runs over 3 days in Trinity College, Dublin, with the first two days being devoted to training on application security , while the 3rd day is plenary sessions from speakers on […]