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How Safe is Your Website? [Infographic]

2013-08-12/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

An Infographic from whoishostingthis.com, the original post can be located here: As the modern marketplace has come to rely on virtual media, storefronts, and relationship management, the need for cybersecurity measures has increased exponentially. Gone are the days of casual GeoCities storefronts, secured only with a (it is hoped) strong password and a vigilant eye. […]

Android-based Bitcoin digital wallets vulnerable to theft

2013-08-12/0 Comments/in Hack/by admin

Android-based Bitcoin digital wallets vulnerable to theft

How Safe is Your Website? [Infographic]

2013-08-12/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Android-based Bitcoin digital wallets vulnerable to theft

2013-08-12/0 Comments/in Hack/by admin

Android-based Bitcoin digital wallets vulnerable to theft

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How Safe is Your Website? [Infographic]

2013-08-12/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

An Infographic from whoishostingthis.com, the original post can be located here:

As the modern marketplace has come to rely on virtual media, storefronts, and relationship management, the need for cybersecurity measures has increased exponentially. Gone are the days of casual GeoCities storefronts, secured only with a (it is hoped) strong password and a vigilant eye.

Today, the World Wide Web has nearly 15 billion web pages (spread across more than 600 million websites), and cybersecurity has become big business. Terms which meant little to anyone outside the then-rarefied Information Technology field twenty or even ten years ago—hacking, phishing, Denial of Service (DoS) attack—have entered the mainstream as businesses and individuals alike find themselves on the receiving end of Internet mischief.

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Android-based Bitcoin digital wallets vulnerable to theft

2013-08-12/0 Comments/in Hack/by admin

Another interesting article from our content partner at HackersNewsBulletin.com:

Bitcoin developers warned Sunday about a critical Vulnerability in Android which leaves digital wallets on the mobile platform vulnerable to theft.

A component of Android responsible for generating secure random numbers contains critical weaknesses, that render all Android wallets generated to date vulnerable to theft. Because the problem lies with Android itself, this problem will affect you if you have a wallet generated by any Android app, developers wrote in a Bitcoin.org blog post.

Get rid of this:

If you want to get rid of this, key rotation is necessary. This involves generating a new address with a repaired random number generator and then sending all the money in your wallet back to yourself.