Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins

Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...

Poisoning the Well: Banking Trojan Targets Google Search Results

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Earl Carter and Emmanuel Tacheau.SummaryIt has become common for users to use Google to find information that they do not know. In a quick Google search you can find practically anything you need to know. Links returned by a Google search, however,...