Some sites allow users to provide active contents that can be posted on the Web sites in the form of images, movies and at times JavaScript. Third party advertisers are also allowed to upload ads that include flash banners. From the perspective of security, running a site with such a functionality opens it [...]

The deeper examination which can be made when new stories of the most recent hacks attacks are published is that the website which belong to the huge names and corporations are hacked in precisely the same way as those websites owned by small business. This without a doubt shows how lack of security measure is [...]

It was on the news recently that senior intelligence authorities of America have prepared to greatly widen the access to confidential satellite reconnaissance and other remote sensing data. The initial plan is that NAO or the National Applications Office which is a new office under the Department of Homeland Security or DHS will be restricted [...]

Hacking used to be quite taboo on the internet but with some of the greatest minds at work on the wrong side of internet law, the battle rages. People have experienced quite a drop in spamming or junk mail but with respect to other threats that comes to our internet doors, the figures just keep [...]

At least the version of the package that is supposedly to be bundled for release this coming October 22, 2009, the set date for the release of the new and improved Windows 7 Operating System. The new operating system is Microsoft’s next gamble to cope with losses suffered from the failure of Vista to capture [...]

It’s not the breath-taking Three-Gorges Dam but a screening software that aims to provide an automatic internet policing force for the government, filtering out illegal content. Saying that, they really mean anything that the government deems not suitable for their citizens. The screening program is explained as an extension to screen illegal images that have [...]

The company has grown tired with security companies lambasting their operating system and how weak they are with their security system they have finally decided to again field a free anti-virus for their many clients to handle threats as effectively as their paid counterparts. They have previously had another program, BitDefender which was included with [...]

The move to get data out of the many data centers and to send them somewhere confidential for safekeeping has long been an option considered for implementation by security experts. Why, well considering the number of alarming security breaches the many secure sites have suffered (even the White House has been breached) why not? The [...]

The attempt to increase awareness about how trouble-free it is for a professional hacker to exploit a vulnerable web application does not seem to be going too far. The “We’ll see when I get hacked” mentality was very common to hackers and still lingering among site owners who ultimately jeopardize losing big chunks of money [...]

Study of different cases which detail XSS intrusions explains us how the changing web technology is nowhere close to making web applications more secure. A detailed web search will make known many stories of large-scale corporation web sites being hacked using XSS exploits, and the reports of such cases always show the same recurring costs [...]