The plot thickens around yesterdays Twitter DOS attack. As some had suspected, other sites, including Facebook and Livejournal, were also targeted too. A post on the Mashable blog also cites Google as being involved in the investigations. Google are a past master at fending off large scale DDOS attacks, and work well with the Tier one [...]

Web darling and social media service-de-jour Twitter was wiped off of the net temporarily today. Probably not in a response to Twitter CEO Evan Williams‘ appearance on BBC’s newsnight last night, where he pronounced London as Twitter’s top city in his first interview on UK Television.
The micro-blogging site was brought to a stand-still by  a [...]

The security vendor McAfee has been embroiled in defusing a security gaff of its own making this week. According to sources and Flickr images, they managed to send out an Excel spreadsheet containing the contact details of 1,408 summit registrants. Opps, as they say.
In a follow up email McAffee stated:
“You may have been inadvertently sent information [...]

Michael Kassner has written a piece on TechRepublic about the security risks of URL shortening. Whilst it has one or two valid points, it also has more technical holes than a gamers PC case.
URL-shortening services such as TinyURL and Bit.ly are becoming popular attack vectors. You may not want to automatically click on the shortened [...]

I was a bit shocked by this one. ZDNet ran with the title “RIM’s CIO: We record all employee calls to protect intellectual property“. The piece was based on an interview ZDNet Australia with Robin Bienfait, CIO of RIM.
“Everything I have that’s on RIM is recorded and retained as RIM. So if they want to have [...]