Posts by Jeff Orloff
When It Hits the Fan – Dealing With Online Reputation Disasters
Stunning design doesn’t make the web go ‘round anymore. Ever since robust web applications made it possible for anyone with a keyboard and ten bucks a month to have a voice, content has reigned as king of the web.
There…
Adobe Needs To Fix Its Hacker Vulnerabilities To Stay On Top
First they crash your system, then they take control. This is exactly how attackers are able to exploit yet another vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and Acrobat Reader. These vulnerabilities can be found specifically in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier…
Rootkit Developed For Upcoming Hacking Conference Shows Android’s Weakness
Apple Drops The Ball, Norton Comes Up With An iPhone Solution
Reading over the Apple discussion forums I came across a post from a concerned iPhone user whose phone was mimicking actions that resembled malware infections they had seen on different PCs running Windows and were symptomatic “of 3 well documented…
A Recap of Facebook Privacy Changes and What the Latest Chapter Teaches Us
Facebook’s privacy gaffes have created a great deal of fodder for news sites and blogs over the past few years, but being called out on a constant basis seemed to have little impact on the way they handle their users’…
Dasient Proclaims Its Technology As Malvertising Cure
Back in April, I wrote a piece about Yahoo’s RightMedia Manager being the number one distributor of malvertising. Despite the attention malvertising gained from delivering malicious ads on large web sites like The New York Times, TechCrunch, Gizmodo,…
Is Facebook Or Google The Lesser Of Two Evils?
Google made recent headlines when they announced that while cruising around different neighborhoods to collect photographs for Street View, they had inadvertently collected private information from various Wi-Fi networks that were unencrypted. Like their previous step into hot water with…
Facebook Acts Like Users No Longer Care About Privacy
For some reason, Facebook can’t seem to keep out of the news when it comes to privacy issues. Unlike recent issues, the latest event comes from a software glitch rather than a poor policy choice.
This month, capping a long…
No About Face for Privacy
Facebook has taken quite a bit of heat over privacy concerns lately. Back in November of 2009 it was found that a Flash vulnerability could allow an attacker to steal all of a user’s personal information. Before…
Publisher Beware is Lesson From Right Media’s Malvertising Incident
Recently, Avast Anti-Virus released a report claiming that Yahoo’s Right Media YieldManager is the leading distributor of “malvertising”. Malvertising being malware that exploits holes in the web applications that are used to deliver web ads from the…
