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Just over a year ago to the day, my wife and I walked into the Apple store in Sydney’s CBD and bought her a shiny new MacBook Air. Macs weren’t familiar territory for us so we happily accepted the offer for a staff member to walk us through some of the nuts and bolts of OSX. That was a handy little starter and we left the store none the wiser that the machine now had a serious security risk that wouldn’t become apparent for another year.
Your Mac, iPhone or iPad May Have Left the Apple Store With a Serious Security Risk
Vicente Silveira , June 7, 2012 It is of the utmost importance to us that we keep you, our members, informed regarding the news this week that some LinkedIn member passwords were compromised.
Taking Steps To Protect Our Members
We Recommend These Resources This article is another in a series of articles associated with our Executive Brief. To access the executive brief, “Addressing Security Concerns in Open-Source Components,” visit www.sonatype.com/securitybrief .
We’re a Java Shop,We’re Not Going to Get Hacked…
Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open
Facebook and MySpace fixed this quickly after being notified. As a application developer on Facebook, I usually run into certain walls that limit my application functionality. But I don't give up easily, and only recently I found a solution to one of my function limitations. Surprisingly, when looked into more carefully my solution allowed full access and control to the Facebook user account that accessed my application. Did I mention this would also be untraceable since exploit actions would happen from the users IP and own domain cookie?Today I received a Facebook notification that a friend of mine sent me a message. She was asking if that was my picture and a link. I quickly sanity checked the link as I always do in emails, and yes, the link was indeed a valid Facebook internal link, so I thought of nothing bad.
I got Facebook phished « Roman Kennke's Blog