Chuck Miller

Recent Articles

US Government Accountability Office: NASA must fix cyber vulnerabilities

October 20, 2009

A new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that NASA has multiple cybersecurity problems.

Warnings made over malicious Facebook application

August 17, 2009

A rogue Facebook application has been detected that sends users to a credential-harvesting site.

Trojans are fastest-growing data-stealing malware

June 30, 2009

Most of the rise in cybercrime can be linked to data-stealing malware, and Trojans are the fastest growing category, according to a report released on Monday by Trend Micro.

IBM develops a way to process encrypted data

June 26, 2009

A researcher at IBM has developed a way to analyse encrypted data without decoding it, according to a statement from IBM

PCI DSS standards to face open comment

June 25, 2009

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) is looking for feedback on its payment industry guidelines and plans to roll out an online tool to make providing input easier.

Twitter malicious software attacks drag on

June 23, 2009

Despite ongoing efforts to address the problem, attacks based on exploiting Twitter's "trending topics" show no sign of abating, according to researchers at Panda Security.

Google responds to call for more security

June 18, 2009

In response to an open letter from dozens of noted security analysts, Google this week said it intends to more broadly turn on security features in its Gmail application by default.

URL shortening site hacked to redirect millions of links

June 17, 2009

The Cligs URL shortening site was hacked during the weekend to cause 2.2 million links to redirect to the same site.

Online auction site goes to war on spam

July 11, 2008

Google and eBay have joined forces to protect users from spam and malicious emails by leveraging an authentication technology called DomainKeys.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes nine vulnerabilities

July 09, 2008

In its Patch Tuesday update, Microsoft addressed nine vulnerabilities by releasing four security updates, none of which were deemed critical.

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