With the recent publications trying to publically denounce the safety of Wi-Fi hotspots, many travelers and business people aren’t actually taking a great deal of notice. After all, when was the last time the cafe had a notice announcing that the information you transmit may be visible to others?  The truth is, while people are [...]

Recently, an industrial company in Texas has suffered the consequences of lax security policies when hackers managed to steal over $1.2 million dollars in a mere 30 minutes. Jugal Malani, owner of the Sugar Land Company located in the USA recently received the blunt end of the stick, when his network was exposed and his [...]

In recent news, it has been brought to light that the US military and government are actively searching for experienced hackers and crackers to join the ranks of the Department of Energy, National Security Agency and other organizations that need to be ‘protected’ from the threat of digital attack. To aid the US government in [...]

Recent reports have surfaced that have revealed weaknesses in the ever-popular Google Voice and Skype protocols.  These weaknesses have allowed attackers to eavesdrop on third party calls and make unauthorized calls using another person’s account. Such a vulnerability in a service as popular as this is highly concerning, but the attacks have been proven to [...]

The state of Virginia has recently came under the international spotlight after it apparently became under attack by an anonymous hacker who claims to have stolen around 35 million prescription records of those residing in the state. This supposed vulnerability has still not been identified, and state information security professionals are still dumbfounded as to [...]

We are living in a world where almost a third of all businesses and home users in America are utilizing some form of VOIP technology. This may be to empower whole calling centers, or alternatively it may be on a smaller scale for inter-departmental communication. 2008 saw a record growth year in VOIP technology, and [...]

The University of London has just published news pertaining to a serious vulnerability in the popular Open Secure Shell(OpenSSH) encryption algorithm. Their shocking revelation is that attackers are able to effectively ‘steal’ 32 bits of plaintext data in an exploit, which is active in some versions of OpenSSH on the linux platform. This recent vulnerability [...]