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A Visual Guide to Rich Snippets 15 Mar 2012 | 02:00 am
If Google understands the content on your pages, we can create rich snippets—detailed information intended to help users with specific queries. For example, the snippet for a restaurant might show the...
Google Chrome Finally hacked at Pwn2Own 14 Mar 2012 | 03:01 am
Vupen Security and Sergey Glazunov independently managed to penetrate Google Chrome’s security defenses at the Pwn2Own and ‘Pwnium’ contests respectively. The annual competition, which invites ethical...
Verizon Data Breach Report 2011 20 Apr 2011 | 06:09 am
Metrics, Interpretations, and Action Plans It’s that time of year again! I just got my hands on the 2011 edition of the Verizon/SS Data Breach Report, and I figured I’d take a moment to share my thou...
Comodo RA Compromise 24 Mar 2011 | 07:06 am
On March 15th 2011, a Comodo affiliate RA was compromised resulting in the fraudulent issue of 9 SSL certificates to sites in 7 domains. Comodo claims no root keys, intermediate CAs or secure hardware...
Google to remove malware by reaching into your Android Device 8 Mar 2011 | 09:04 am
Google’s Android Market Place recently thought to have been loaded with 21 malicious applications, which is now thought to actually be closer to 58 applications, will soon be cleaned up. The Android M...
Google Launches New Algorithm Update to Target Link Farms 25 Feb 2011 | 05:18 pm
Over the past few weeks Google has taken some serious measures to eliminate web spam from its organic search results. Early February, JC Penny was hit with a manual and algorithmic penalty for “buying...
Cloud Computing – Multi-Tenancy and Application Security 24 Feb 2011 | 03:04 pm
So there’s been a lot of discussion about multi-tenancy recently and what it means for cloud providers and users. To put it simply: multi-tenancy is highly desirable to providers because they can prov...
Steal iPhone passwords in six minutes 11 Feb 2011 | 05:23 pm
If you lose your iPhone you better issue a remote wipe ASAP with “Find My iPhone” available in the Apple App Store. Researchers have shown that they can jailbreak and decrypt passwords from the iPhone...
Bing Responds to Cheating Claims by Google 3 Feb 2011 | 06:53 am
Yesterday, Google shed light on a sting operation they conducted and said they had proof that Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then...
Experiment – How Twitter Links Effect Search Engine Ranking 11 Dec 2010 | 10:49 am
Last week both Google and Microsoft confirmed that they do in fact take in to consideration social media links (links within Facebook and Twitter) in their ranking algorithms. I thought it would be i...