MENTION the words IT security to a small-business owner and the chances are that he or she will start yawning. But IT security matters to small firms. Studies by Microsoft have found that seven out of ten small firms that suffer a big loss of company information go out of business within a year. Most of us know about viruses and spam, but what about phishing, key-logging and botnets? The number of cyber attacks is rising, with 62% of small firms saying they have suffered an information-security incident in the past year. And recent research by Business Link, the advisory service for companies, shows that almost half of small businesses expect a breach of their IT security in the next year.
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Ever since its debut, Firefox has garnered a reputation for being an enormously customizable program, both through its add-on architecture and its internal settings. In fact, many of Firefox’s settings aren’t exposed through the Tools > Options menu; the only way to change them is to edit them manually. In this article, we’ll explore some of the most useful Firefox settings that you can change on your own, and that aren’t normally available through the program’s graphical interface.
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Today we talk about Cross Site Request Forgery (also known as XSRF) abbreviated in CSRF, from which pronounce has come the friendly name “Sea Surf” 
Following the previous papers on Cross Site Scripting written by me, i thought it was an obvious step to deal with this theme: here i am then! This kind of vulnerability, which is very common and understimated, permits to make a victim user to send any kind of HTTP request to a website in which he is logged in and trusted in some way.
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The rapidly expanding ranks of people banking online has raised questions over whether consumers are armed to deal with the growing threat from cyber pirates.
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Commonly grouped along with external mobile threats, mobile viruses have become common throughout todayâs mobile community. The fleeting question on the mind of so many mobile owners is why. To understand todayâs mobile virus, one must look back at the evolution of computer viruses. Viruses donât typically enter a medium such as mobile communication as malicious attacks rather they start with software developers pushing the limits of modern coding. Initial developments in computer viruses would often remove or otherwise alter a strategic kernel or other file type in effort of achieving a desired result. Mobile viruses began with much of the same innocence. The early mobile viruses would merely drain the battery of a mobile handset while todayâs mobile viruses can practically render a cell phone useless.To understand why mobile viruses have become so destructive one must understand that as a hacker the more malicious your virus is the better it is. As a group, hackers are scientist that in my humble opinion, fuel the development of technology. Generally hackers get a bad wrap, but it is their persistence in exploring the edge of technology that makes them extremely interesting. The reason mobile viruses are so fascinating to me is that dissecting them really is â this is the former U.S. Marine about to come through â like dismantling daisy chain explosives. In case youâre not the military type, daisy chain explosives are any variety of bombs that are interlinked to cause a chain of explosions that to the naked eye looks like a single blast.
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Hackers can drop malicious code into systems running Mozilla Corp.‘s Firefox when the browser is armed with any of several high-profile add-ons, including Google Toolbar and Yahoo Toolbar, a researcher revealed today. Mozilla has acknowledged the risk posed by some extensions.
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Security That Nets Malicious Web Sites Science Daily. Have you ever wondered how fraudulent or malicious websites can rank highly on search engines like Google or Yahoo? Professor Audun Josang suggests develop a new type of internet security system based on “reputation” where a community of users can rank the quality of a website. (Credit: Image courtesy of Queensland University of Technology)
Ads by Google. Queensland University of Technology IT researcher Professor Audun Josang said a website’s ranking was determined by the number of people who visited the site – the more hits the higher the ranking.
But this system is fraught with danger and can be easily manipulated directing people to unreliable, low quality and fraudulent sites, according to Professor Josang.
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