> To improve their chances of beating a spam filter by sending you spam from your contact’s account, the spammer first has to break into that account. This means many spammers are turning into account thieves.
Good to see Google fighting these people.
Android applications downloaded by as many as 185 million users can expose end users’ online banking and social networking credentials, e-mail and instant-messaging contents because the programs use inadequate encryption protections, computer scientists have found.
Of course, iOS doesn’t have this problem, so all of you Android owners that want to switch from the malware invested, security sucking Android can make the move any time.
Google’s Matt Cutts on the myths and realities of enabling two-factor authentication.
Mat Honan:
I know how it was done now. Confirmed with both the hacker and Apple. It wasn’t password related. They got in via Apple tech support and some clever social engineering that let them bypass security questions.
The good news is the hacker didn’t brute-force the password. The bad news… yeah.
We are currently investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords. This follows recent password leaks on other sites, as well as information posted online. As a precautionary measure, we’re asking all our users to change their passwords immediately.
Let’s just assume that every password is going to be leaked.