Michal Zalewski (aka lcamtuf) has just announced that google is changing the terms of its vulnerability purchase program. The google announcement says: Today, to celebrate the success of [the program] and to underscore our commitment to security, we are rolling out updated rules for our program — including new reward amounts for critical bugs: $20,000 …
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the latest from El Reg
- 'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8 2012/05/21
- Google snubs Euro watchdog's 'abuse of dominance' claims 2012/05/21
- ALL NHS patient records online by 2015 2012/05/21
- IBM parks parallel file system on Big Data's lawn 2012/05/21
- NVIDIA VGX VDI: New tech? Or rehashed hash? 2012/05/21
- Audi proposes PC-packing stunt bikes 2012/05/21
- Met cops' CSI mobe-snoop tech sparks privacy fears 2012/05/21
- Does private cloud follow virtualisation? 2012/05/21
- IP law probe MPs hunt for smoking gun, find plenty of smoke 2012/05/21
- Nasdaq red-faced after software snafu stalls Facebook IPO 2012/05/21
- Core Wars: Inside Intel's power struggle with NVIDIA 2012/05/21
- Ouch! Facebook falls below IPO value in pre-trading on Nasdaq 2012/05/21
- What's copying your music really worth to you? 2012/05/21
- Brussels throws antitrust settlement lifeline to Google 2012/05/21
- Resistance is futile? Memristor RAM now cheap as chips 2012/05/21
- Another NHS trust coughs up £90k fine for lax fax acts 2012/05/21
Category Archive: security
Apr 18 2012
now switch it back on
Bugtraq can be an interesting list. Back in June 2008 I noted that one Craig Wright had posted an advisory about a vulnerability in an Oral B toothbrush. Well, just over a week ago a chap called Gabriel Menezes Nunes posted a proof of concept remote denial of service attack on a Sony Bravia television …
Apr 17 2012
battle for the internet
This week the guardian, my newspaper of choice, is running a week long series of articles under the theme “battle for the internet“. The reporting looks set to be interesting and is due to cover the following themes: “the militarisation of cyberspace”, “the new walled gardens”, “IP wars”, “civilising the web”, “open resistance”, and (doomladen …
Mar 19 2012
unlinked
Today I received two (make that four now – must sort out my spam filters) phishing emails from a source new to me. Each email purported to come from “linkedin” and each invited me to login to respond to “invitations from your work colleague”. Since a) I have never been a member of linkedin, and …
Mar 06 2012
banking stupidity
When I logged on to my new bank site this morning, I tried the “help” offered on the opening screen just to see what they had to say about the range of options available. I was not best pleased to be greeted by the message “Flash is not installed, is not enabled or is not …
Mar 04 2012
am I kidding myself
I have recently moved my bank current and short term savings accounts. Partly this is a political statement in support of the move your money campaign, and partly because I feel that my money might actually be a bit safer (if only slightly) in a small UK Mutual than with the UK arm of a …
Jan 12 2012
t-mobile resets its policy?
As I have mentioned in other posts here, I run my own mail server on one of my VMs. I do this for a variety of reasons, but the main one is that I like to control my own network destiny. Back in October last year I noticed an interesting change in my mail experience …
Dec 19 2011
tunnelling X over ssh
OK, yes, I know there are probably already a gazillion web pages on the ‘net explaining exactly how to do this, but I got caught out by a silly gotcha when I tried to do this a couple of days ago, so I thought I’d post a note. Firstly, X is not exactly a secure …
Jan 23 2011
click here
The Cory Doctorow article referenced at the end of the post below mentions URL shorteners as potentially dangerous because they completely obscure the actual URL you will be taken to if you click them. By way of experiment I thought I’d post one here just to see how often it is used.
Jan 23 2011
damn, I think I got hit by a 419er
I am normally pretty careful about my on-line security and privacy. I take a lot of care to ensure that my home network is nailed down tightly and all the clients and servers on it are also nailed down as well as I know how. I don’t use software which is susceptible to the majority …
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