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Windows 8 Picture Gesture Authentication Research

Typing on a smartphone or tablet keyboard lends itself to a lot of fat-fingered mistakes. Recent updates to mobile operating systems and desktop OSes such as Windows 8, however, have tried to better leverage the touch screen for things such as authentication. Users, for example, have the option o...

Password Strength Testers Work for Important Accounts

Many popular online services have started to deploy password strength meters, visual gauges that are often color-coded and indicate whether the password you’ve chosen is weak or strong based on the website’s policy. The effectiveness of these meters in influencing users to choose stronger passwor...

Creative Ideas for Replacing Passwords

Passwords have been the de facto manner of providing security for IT systems. Theyve got a bad reputation, but its not the passwords themselves that deserve the reputation - its the individuals using them and the weak standards to which these passwords are managed. In fact, a password system...

How Facebook Ticker exposing your information and behavior without your knowledge

How Facebook Ticker exposing your information and behavior without your knowledge Nelson Novaes Neto , a Brazilian independent Security and Behavior Research have analyze a privacy issue in FacebookTicker that allows any person chasing you without your knowledge or consent . He explain that this ...

SAUSAGE Con Delves into IT Security's 'Human Problem'

‘Why is security so hard?’ That’s the question that a new conference focused on “useable security” will attempt to answer by bringing together experts on security, software development and human-computer interaction. DEK: ‘Why is security so hard?’ That’s the question that a new conference will...

Apple Safari for Windows and Internet Explorer Combined Code Execution (CVE-2008-2540)

Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most widely used Internet browser. Safari is a web browsing application developed by Apple. A combination of the default download location in Safari and how the Windows desktop handles executables creates a blended threat in which files may be downloaded to a...

Didier Stevens on PDF Hacking and Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Didier Stevens, the security researcher who developed the innovative method for using the /launch command in PDF readers to execute code on remote machines. Stevens discusses the ramifications of the discovery, the security of PDFs in general and the user behavior that...

Yahoo! Messenger File Transfer Filename Spoofing (CVE-2005-0243)

Yahoo Messenger is a service providing instant messages, similar to MSN Messenger and ICQ. Yahoo! Messenger allows users to see when their friends come online, send instant messages, join chat rooms, and exchange files. There exists a vulnerability in the way Yahoo! Messenger displays file names ...

5 security flubs users make while Web surfing

From CIO Joan Goodchild You can install the best firewalls, patch religiously, and make sure your anti-virus software is always up-to-date, but there is one online risk factor you can never control: the user. Whether they are downloading dangerous content or falling prey to phishing scams, the en...