Tag: MALICIOUS

It's official. Facebook's Instant Personalization sucks, and here's why. Last night, security consultant George Deglin discovered a hole in Facebook's new framework that, if correctly manipulated by a savvy hacker, could share a user's name, e-mail and personal data with everyone else on the social network -- without any action from the targeted user. As TechCrunch explains, this specific scheme ...

The battle between malicious software makers and computer security companies has taken a new turn. Spammers have turned users against themselves and against the security firms trying to protect them. The latest security system to undergo assault by spammers is CAPTCHA, or "Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart." CAPTCHA displays a series of letters and ...