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Tag Archives: Security
Apple Users Fix for Certificate Attacks
In light of the disclosure on Wednesday about 9 fraudulent SSL certificates being issued by a partner of Comodo, Microsoft was quick to respond with an update to protect users of Windows.
Apple however has not reacted leaving many OS X users in the dark. Mike Shannon from SophosLabs did some research for me this week so we could provide a guide on configuring your Mac to be secured against these bogus certificates.
Unfortunately not all browsers behave the same on OS X so we have to describe a few different processes to ensure maximum protection.
Apple Safari and Google Chrome both support the Apple Keychain application for managing digital certificates and determining who you trust.
You will need to open the Keychain Access application. Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Keychain Access or press Cmd+Shift+U and open Keychain Access.
Choose the Keychain Access menu in the Menu Bar and choose Preferences or press Cmd+[comma]. Within the preferences dialog choose the certificates button and set both OCSP and CRL to "Best Attempt"....
Network Solutions Hack hit up to 5 Million Sites
According to a Tech Herald report appearing over the weekend, an attack on a widget offered by hosting company Network Solutions to customers of its hosting and domain parking services led to the distribution of malware by sites displaying the widget, through the compromise of Network Solutions’ own growsmallbusiness.com site, which distributed the widget.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to a Tech Herald report appearing over the weekend, an attack on a widget offered by hosting company Network S...
Apple has more Security Holes than Microsoft
Here's another blow to those insist that Apple products are rock solid and unhackable: The security company Secunia reports that Apple products have more vulnerabilities than those of any other company. Oracle came in second place, with Microsoft in third.
Secunia just issued a report that covers vulnerabilities for the first half of 2010, and it's not good news for Apple. The report (which you can download here) shows that Apple last had the most vulnerabilities of all vendors in 2005, before Oracle took over the top spot. And now Apple is on top again. You can see the chart, below.
The chart shows that Apple products consistently have more vulnerabilities than do Microsoft ones....
Network Solutions Hack Compromises 573,000 Credit, Debit Accounts
Anyone that had an online store hosted by Network Solutions needs to read this article.
Network Solutions Hack Compromises 573,000 Credit, Debit Accounts
- Image by Jordan and Lee via Flickr
Hackers have broken into Web servers owned by domain registrar and hosting provider Network Solutions, planting rogue code that resulted in the compromise of more than 573,000 debit and credit card accounts over the past three months, Security Fix has learned.
Herndon, Va. based Network Solutions discovered in early June that attackers had hacked into Web servers the company uses to provide e-commerce services – a package that includes everything from Web hosting to payment processing — to at least 4,343 customers, mostly mom-and-pop online stores. The malicious code left behind by the attackers allowed them to intercept personal and financial information for customers who purchased from those stores, Network Solutions spokeswoman Susan Wade said.
Wade said the company is working with federal law enforcement and a commercial data breach forensics team to determine the cause and source of the break-in. The payment data stolen was captured from transactions made between March 12, 2009 and June 8, 2009.
Image by dfmartins via Flickr
On Friday, Network Solutions began notifying affected customers by e-mail and postal mail. Due to the potential high cost of notifying individual victims, the hosting company is offering to handle the notification of affected customers of the breached online stores. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws requiring organizations to notify consumers when a data breach or loss jeopardizes the security of personal and financial data, but the rules for complying with those laws differ from state to state.
“We feel terribly about it to burden them with the notification process, which can be kind of tricky because there is no one federal data breach statute,” Wade said.