Tag: CANSECWEST

Google: 1, Hackers: 0. The game is far from over, but right now, Google has a pretty firm upper hand in the battle over browser security supremacy. This past week, hackers were invited to the CanSecWest security conference, where they were encouraged to break browsers and bend them to their wills. While Firefox and Internet Explorer were both hacked and exploited, it was Apple's Safari that ...

In an era of ever-present phishing scams, debilitating viruses, and dwindling privacy, computer users have a new threat to confront. Two separate research firms have discovered inexpensive and relatively easy methods of intercepting and interpreting keyboard strokes. Using only an oscillator, an electronic circuit that emits a repetitive signal, and a regular wireless antenna, researchers from ...