I Am Security

Category: Finjan

  • Widgets+Advertisements=?

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    Coincidence or just sheer luck, but I just happened to stumble upon this article announcing that Google has come up with a widget that serves advertisements, and quoting the source: “A variety of web technologies can be used to create the ad, including Flash and HTML to author it, and RSS, images, video, and audio…

  • Hitting the nail on the head

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    When we here at the MCRC are publishing our quarterly trends reports (http://www.finjan.com/Content.aspx?id=827), we are always facing the possibility that what we have been working on and predicting that would become the next issue with web security, isn’t really going to happen. Fortunately, we keep getting great feedback from the community since we started the…

  • The perils of running a security blog

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    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…

  • Vista Sidebar Vulnerability

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    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

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    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…