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 Posted by secExtra on September 02nd, 2010

“The embarrassing hack of PayPal/iTunes accounts once again highlights the weakness of fixed passwords and shows how vulnerable these services are to attack. It is clear that hackers are using increasingly sophisticated methods to steal account details yet amazingly these high profile brands just seem to shrug their shoulders and simply ask users to change their password. This does nothing to prevent the same thing happening again in the future and keeps playing into the fraudsters hands.

“If these online service providers want to stay at the forefront of industry innovation they must look at implementing more secure, easy-to-use and cost …

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 Posted by secExtra on August 27th, 2010

Safari was the only browser available for Mac OS until a couple of years ago, and Apple released a Windows version only in 2007. That is not to say the browser isn’t good. It is. It was made by Apple to closely integrate with their Mac OS, so that already says something about its quality.

It looks great and it has enough features to compete with any current browser on the market. In fact it is number 3 by choice in North America (including Mac and PC computers; after Firefox and Chrome; we’re not counting the default installs of Internet Explorer) …

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 Posted by secExtra on August 21st, 2010

Chrome is Google’s entrance to the web browsers world and answer to Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera and all the other browsers online. And it was a good thing that it was released, because the other software companies were getting lazy with the release of better versions and improved support for newer technologies. Yes, even Mozilla with their Firefox.

Chrome is currently the fastest browser available, mostly thanks to the implementation of the newest Javascript rendering engine. You will also have a hard time finding a more crash-proof browser, as Chrome runs every tab and window in a separate process, so …

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 Posted by secExtra on August 18th, 2010

Stephen Howes, CEO of GrIDsure, the innovative alternative to passwords and PINs, comments on the latest research from Richard Boyd at the Georgia Tech Research Institute highlighting the weaknesses of passwords:

“The report from the Georgia Tech Research Institute correctly confirms that passwords are past their sell-by-date. However, I find it bewildering that the Institute is recommending passwords should become longer and more complicated. This goes against every other trend that I have come across in my business and personal life towards making things more convenient and less complicated. Who is seriously going to remember the recommended 12 character …

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 Posted by secExtra on August 04th, 2010

June saw the UK become the fourth largest producer of spam in the world, and it is now also the fourth largest producer of viruses, according to July threat statistics from managed security company, Network Box.

The number one virus producer remains the US, which has increased production by around one per cent (to 14.6 per cent). But India’s slight increase in production (from 9.2 to 9.5 per cent) was enough to move it to number two in the charts and see Korea drop to third place, with a decline in production of more than three per cent.

The UK has moved …