This is a bit off-the-beaten-path of this blog’s usual in-depth hardcore security posts. I was going through some of the support related emails that have some relevance to the areas I’m responsible for, and found a pretty interesting correspondence between an avid blog reader (for privacy I’m not going to mention his/her name), and one [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2007’
Vista Sidebar Vulnerability
Or how a contact may get too close for comfort… It’s finally here. August 14th, and we are finally in liberty to talk about the vulnerability in the Vista Sidebar Contacts Widget. As you may or may not know – when we presented “The Inherent Insecurity of Widgets and Gadgets” a few days ago at [...]
Post BlackHat, pre DefCon
So it’s been a really hectic couple of days here in Vegas. We are here (myself and 2 members of MCRC – Aviv & Amir), running between presentations, and handling booth/media traffic. The really interesting trend here is the amount of research that touched web security (in the sense that we at Finjan are focused [...]