Following the revelation that Google and other online marketing companies have been bypassing the mechanism for blocking third-party cookies in Safari, the Internet Explorer development team asked themselves whether Google might be doing the same thing in IE. As they detail on IEBlog, they discovered that this was the case – Google circumvents Internet Explorer’s [...]

Microsoft’s privacy protection feature in Internet Explorer, known as P3P, is impractical to comply with while providing modern web functionality such as cookie-based features, Google said Monday in response to an accusation from Microsoft that Google had bypassed privacy protections in Internet Explorer. Google is already facing allegations that the company circumvented privacy settings in [...]

The director of the National Security Agency says the hacktivist group is growing more powerful and could eventually attack our power grid. So beware. Anonymous has so far plied its trade in “hactivist” exploits. But according to the director of the National Security Agency, it might soon turn its focus to U.S. infrastructure. Read this [...]

“Laughing at people talking about the internet decades ago” is one of our favorite video subgenres here at Gizmodo, and this specimen doesn’t disappoint: a fatherly ATT narrator explains the dangers of hackers. Look out! Your modem is under attack! The video, entitled “Computer Security: You Make the Difference,” hits all the same points that [...]

An upcoming campaign announced by the hacking group Anonymous directed against the Internet’s core address lookup system is unlikely to cause much damage, according to one security expert. In a warning on Pastebin, Anonymous said last Thursday it would launch an action on March 31 as part of “Operation Global Blackout” that would target the [...]

Trend Micro has published the source code of its free anti-malware tool, HijackThis (HJT), on Sourceforge under a GPLv2 licence. Trend Micro says it will be maintaining the original source code but also incorporating modifications from the community. HijackThis creator, Merijn Bellekom, said that “this means that other people can build on a solid base [...]

As part of its bug bounty program, Google doled out $6,837 to purchase the rights to information on the Chrome security vulnerabilities. Google has shipped another Chrome browser update to fix several gaping security holes.The most serious of the patched vulnerabilities could allow remote hacker attacks via specially rigged Web sites.follow Ryan Naraine on twitter. [...]

It had to happen: Criminals are trying to find holds in the IPv6 protocol by launching denial of service attacks. Cybercriminals have started launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against networks that transmit data over IPv6, according to a report published recently by DDoS mitigation vendor Arbor Networks. Even though 2011 was the first year when [...]

Analysis Cryptography researchers have discovered flaws in the key generation that underpins the security of important cryptography protocols, including SSL. Two teams of researchers working on the problem have identified the same weak key-generation problems. However, the two teams differ in their assessment of how widespread the problem is – and crucially which systems are [...]

Do viruses, DDoS attacks, or buffer overflows tickle your fancy? If so, you might consider becoming a legal hacker, aka an ethical hacker, “white hat” hacker, or penetration tester. Businesses and government-related organizations that are serious about their network security hire ethical hackers and penetration testers to help probe and improve their networks, applications, and [...]