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About Ryan Naraine
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Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.
Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.
Ryan can be reached at naraine SHIFT 2 gmail.com. For daily updates on Ryan's activities, follow him on Twitter.
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Ryan Naraine
Biography
Ryan Naraine
Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.
Ryan can be reached at naraine SHIFT 2 gmail.com. For daily updates on Ryan's activities, follow him on Twitter.
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Adobe plugs critical holes in Shockwave Player
These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to run malicious code on an affected Windows or Mac OS X system.
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Should we be focusing on vulnerabilities or exploits?
Mitja Kolsek argues that there's a hidden danger in focusing on limiting exploitability instead of exterminating vulnerabilities.
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Mozilla patches 'critical' Firefox security hole
Mozilla rates this a "critical" vulnerability that can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.
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Patch Tuesday heads-up: 21 vulnerabilities, including 'critical' IE bulletin
Fixes coming for dangerous security holes in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, the Internet Explorer browser and .NET/Silverlight.
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'Offensive security research community helping bad guys'
Adobe security chief Brad Arkin argues that benevolent security researchers who publish techniques to defeat security mitigations are doing a major disservice.
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Coming to Firefox: Flash Player in a sandbox
Adobe says sandboxing technology has proven very effective in protecting users by increasing the cost and complexity of writing effective exploits.
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Hackers pounce on just-patched Windows Media vulnerability
The end result is a malicious Trojan with rootkit capabilities. The attack happens silently in the background and all the user sees is a blank WMP application playing a file.
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How SCADA highlights the futility of finding security vulnerabilities
Pete Lindstrom argues that 'irresponsible' disclosure of security holes in SCADA systems could put human lives at risk and calls on the security research community to start thinking about the...
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Microsoft: 'Kelihos' botnet master worked for AV vendor
Microsoft pinpoints a Russian software developer who is being accused of creating, operating and growing the notorious Kelihos botnet.
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CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker challenge gets a $105,000 makeover
HP Zero Day Initiatives revamps the annual hacker contest to put more zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits in play.
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Was Koobface exposé the right move?
Stefan Tanase argues that the public outing of the Koobface hacker gang makes it even more difficult for law enforcement to act.
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TED video: Three types of online attacks
Mikko Hypponen talks about the three types of online attacks on our privacy and data -- but only two are considered crimes.
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Ready-made Microsoft Windows zero-day?
A design issue could allow organizations with access to powerful computers to launch an attack against MD5 to escalate rights on fully patched computers running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008.
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Despite risks, business social networking usage exploding
Businesses are using Facebook and Twitter to engage with customers but are they paying attention to the dangerous privacy and security implications?
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NSA releases security-enhanced Android OS
Security Enhanced (SE) Android is aimed at limiting the damage that can be done by flawed or malicious apps and at enforcing separation guarantees between apps.
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Google testing login authentication via QR codes
Instead of entering a Google Account password on public computers that might be infected with keystroke loggers, Google is experimenting with a phone-based authentication scheme.
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Zappos hacked, 24 million affected
The attackers may have swiped names, e-mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers and/or cryptographically scrambled passwords.
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Attack tool published for WiFi setup flaw; Cisco issues warning
A working attack tool for this vulnerability is publicly available so it's important for affected users to heed all vendor warnings.
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10 years since the Bill Gates security memo: A personal journey
Ten years after the famous Trustworthy Computing memo, Microsoft principal cybersecurity architect Michael Howard shares memories from the Redmond security trenches.
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ID thieves masquerading as Facebook security team
The latest bit of skullduggery involves using ascii characters to impersonate Facebook's security team and steal credit card data from users of the social network.
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