Smile, your webcam has been clickjacked
Underscoring the severity of a new class of vulnerability known as clickjacking, a blogger has created a proof-of-concept game that uses a PC’s video cam and microphone to secretly spy on the player.…
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The states have been busy of late enacting laws that address a broad spectrum of security protections, from outlawing radio frequency identification (RFID) tag tracking to requiring organizations to encrypt sensitive data whether it is stored on a computer or sent over the Internet. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week approved a bill that would make it illegal to secretly scan the data encoded on unsecured RFID chips for the purposes of tracking, identity theft or counterfeiting the devices. RFID tags are tiny chips that are now commonly embedded into many retail products, student IDs, drivers’ licenses, passports and medical ID cards. Most RFID tags are “passive,” in that they have no internal power supply and are designed to be read from a few inches away, but researchers have shown that even passive tags can be read from more than 30 feet with special equipment. However, for the second [...]
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A glut of e-mail from constituents and special interest groups continued to pose problems for the Web sites for members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, as millions of Americans attempt to voice their opinions on the financial bailout package the day before an expected vote on the measure. Jeff Ventura, a spokesperson for the House’s chief administrative officer, called the volume of e-mail flowing through member Web sites “staggering and unprecedented.” He said more than two-dozen interest groups sending large batches of e-mail have contributed to the problem. “Advocacy groups are collecting e-mails and then shoving them into a system that was really designed for manual input, not for people to send us wholesale batches of thousands of e-mails at a time,” Ventura said. Still, he said, e-mails from individual users still far outnumber those submitted in bulk. The timing of the Wall Street rescue package [...]
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