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Android banking malware with a twist in the delivery

Sneaky and circuitous. It’s a piece of Windows malware that uses a debugging feature on your phone (disabled by default, so you only have it turned on if you’re a mobile software developer or you obsessively try out every option in the settings to see what it does) to install Android malware over a USB cable.

Android banking malware with a twist in the delivery

Here’s an intriguing tale of an Android malware curveball spotted recently in SophosLabs. You’re expecting the pitch to come at you in a predictable direction, but a hidden twist in the action b…

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

Wow. Some important lessons here on computer account security, for users and more importantly for service providers. The Twitter name isn’t the scary part…it’s that it was way too easy for the attacker to gain control of the domain name, email and web hosting with just a pair of phone calls.

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

A story of how PayPal and GoDaddy allowed the attack and caused me to lose my $50,000 Twitter username.

Responsive Design Won’t Fix Your Content Problem

More on Responsive Design. It’s a great way (probably the ideal way) to make your site work across devices. But you still need to tailor your content, too. They’re complementary approaches.

Responsive Design Won’t Fix Your Content Problem

For years, we’ve told clients to serve the same content to every platform. We explained that Responsive Web Design allows content to squish itself into any container. Is it any wonder, then, that the…

Responsive Design Won’t Hurt Your SEO

I love how responsive design is seen as this new idea, allowing your website to adjust to different display sizes and types… when it was one of the original design principles of the web.

Google’s Matt Cutts: Responsive Design Won’t Hurt Your SEO

There are fewer SEO drawbacks when using responsive design versus a lightweight mobile version, but a mobile site can work just as well as responsive design, as long as you avoid dividing your PageRank…

Waterworld: The Right Way to Think About the Battles in Mobile

An interesting metaphor, and it certainly fits with the way I’ve looked at Google, Amazon, and Apple’s strategies.

Waterworld: The Right Way to Think About the Battles in Mobile

Here’s the frame that I use: Apple sells systems. Google sells services. Amazon sells content. Microsoft, in general, sells software, although that’s changing now.

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Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users

The Adobe security breach announced a month ago turns out to be worse than previously thought.

Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users — Krebs on Security

The recent data breach at Adobe that exposed user account information and prompted a flurry of password reset emails impacted at least 38 million users, the company now says. It also appears that the…

PHP.net compromise aftermath: Why Code Signing Beats Hashes

If someone can change the download page, they can change the hash too. If you sign the code with a secret key, they have to steal your key too — and you should be keeping that off of your web server.

ISC Diary | PHP.net compromise aftermath: Why Code Signing Beats Hashes

PHP.net compromise aftermath: Why Code Signing Beats Hashes, Author: Johannes Ullrich

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NSA May be Choking on a Huge Mouthful of Spam

Hah! “I’m guessing the brain trust at the NSA is working on a way to filter out the good data from the flood of spam, and my request is this: if you come up with a good anti-spam algorithm, share it.”

NSA May be Choking on a Huge Mouthful of Spam – All Spammed Up

Hopefully, the NSA has an über good spam filter. The profile of the super-secret spy agency has been anything but secret of late, thanks to the activities of former CIA employee and NSA contractor turned…

The Things You Must Not Tell Anyone At Work (Or should you?)

For some medical conditions, telling the people around you is actually a safety concern. I’ve got severe food allergies. I can’t join coworkers for Thai food. If an event is catered, I need it to include something I can eat, and I need to be able to trust that my coworkers aren’t mixing up the food I can’t eat with the food I can. If I go into anaphylactic shock, it would be helpful if someone knew what to do while waiting for the paramedics to arrive. I certainly don’t make it the subject of every conversation, but when food is involved, it comes up…and frankly, it *has* to.

Warning! The Things You Must Not Tell Anyone At Work

There are some things we shouldn’t tell anyone at work. Sharing the ‘wrong’ things with co-workers can quickly backfire and leave us exposed, vulnerable or side-lined.