- Mozilla to auto-upgrade Firefox 3.6 users to version 12, The H Security: News and Features
- Flashback bots search Twitter for controllers, hit Snow Leopard hardest, Ars Technica
- Skype divulges user IP addresses, The H Security: News and Features
- Five Shocking Statistics From The Latest Internet Threat Report, threatpost
- How to Disconnect from Web Tracking, ReadWriteWeb
- Release of exploit code puts Oracle Database users at risk of attack, Ars Technica
- ‘Stand Your Cyberground’ Law: A Novel Proposal for Digital Security, Tech at The Atlantic
- What online social networks may know about non-members, phys.org via Groklaw NewsPicks
- Chrome 18 update closes high-risk security holes, The H Security: News and Features
- Skype leaking user IP addresses, TCP ports, ZDNet
- Firefox “security” add-on exposes users’ Web browsing history, Ars Technica
- Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft, Ars Technica
- Cross-platform malware exploits Java to attack PCs and Macs, ZDNet
- Over 1.5 million Visa, MasterCard credit card numbers stolen?, ZDNet
- BUSTED: Security Exploit Exposed by Skype “Tool” Not a Hole, ReadWriteWeb
- OONI maps internet censorship on a global scale, The H Security: News and Features
- New Malware Found Exploiting Mac OS X Snow Leopard, threatpost
- Firefox security bug (proxy-bypass) in current TBBs, The Tor Blog
- One third of Firefox users vulnerable to known flaws; IE and Chrome continue to gain share, Ars Technica
- Android users targeted for the first time in drive-by download attacks, Ars Technica
- Serious Remote PHP Bug Accidentally Disclosed, threatpost
- Coming Up With Better Ways to Count — and Counter — Botnets, threatpost
- Sigrok: open source framework for logic analysers, The H Security: News and Features
- Skype knew about IP address security flaw back in 2010, ZDNet
- Rogue Firefox extension hijacks browser sessions, ZDNet
- Expert Warns That WordPress Autoupdate Feature Used To Infect Blogs With Malware, threatpost
- Recent Facebook XSS Attacks Show Increasing Sophistication, Social Hacking
- New Tor Browser Bundles (security release), The Tor Blog
- PHP Group Releases New Versions, But Patch Doesn’t Fix CVE-2012-1823 Bug, threatpost
- A Gaming Replacement for Those Annoying CAPTCHAs, ReadWriteWeb
- Adobe warns: Flash Player malware hitting IE on Windows users, Zero Day at ZDNet
- Critical Flash Update Fixes Zero-day Flaw, Krebs on Security
- Verifying a User By Following the Movements of Their Mouse, Slashdot
- Researchers spot new Web malware exploitation kit, Zero Day at ZDNet
- Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in clear text, Zero Day at ZDNet
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A couple of reactions:
Stand Your Ground laws are at least *supposed* to be about defense of life, not property, as I understand them. Cyberattacks are mostly not life-threatening.
Pancake game sub for Captcha looks culture-biased.