Lucian Constantin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucian Constantin

Article | 1/12/2011 Anonymous' Robin Hood credit card fraud campaign could hurt more than just banks

Hacktivist groups Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN have joined together in a new campaign that involves compromising credit card details and using them to don...

Article | 30/11/2011 Facebook community forum swamped by spam during Thanksgiving weekend

Facebook's community forum was flooded during the Thanksgiving weekend with spam messages that advertised live streaming links for various sporting ev...

Article | 29/11/2011 WikiLeaks: Security worries impede new submission system

WikiLeaks has postponed the launch of its new secure submission system due to recent security compromises that seriously affected the credibility of t...

Article | 29/11/2011 Trojan sends premium-rate SMS messages, aims at European and Canadian Android users

A new Android Trojan program that poses as an SMS management application is sending text messages to predefined premium-rate numbers in Europe and Can...

Article | 26/11/2011 Unpatched Apache reverse proxy flaw allows access to internal network

A yet-to-be-patched flaw discovered in the Apache HTTP server allows attackers to access protected resources on the internal network if some rewrite r...

Article | 25/11/2011 ISPs can't be forced to monitor traffic for copyright infringement, ECJ rules

In what some consider to be a landmark decision, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that forcing Internet service providers (ISPs) to monito...

Article | 24/11/2011 Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45 Gbps, says company

A week-long DDoS attack that launched a flood of traffic at an Asian e-commerce company in early November was the biggest such incident so far this ye...

Article | 24/11/2011 Google protects its current HTTPS traffic against future attacks

Google has modified the encryption method used by its HTTPS-enabled services including Gmail, Docs and Google+, in order to prevent current traffic fr...

Article | 23/11/2011 Browser extension allows users to express their email privacy expectations

A team of privacy researchers and product designers from Europe and the U.S. have released a browser-based implementation of Privicons, a project that...

Article | 22/11/2011 EFF proposes new method to strengthen Public Key Infrastructure

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is proposing an extension to the current SSL chain of trust that aims to improve the security of HTTPS and ot...

Article | 22/11/2011 Security experts concerned about Google's attitude toward Android malware

Antivirus experts disagree with Chris DiBona, Google's open-source programs manager, who recently said that there is no virus problem on the Android p...

Article | 22/11/2011 OpenPGP JavaScript implementation allows webmail encryption

Researchers from German security firm Recurity Labs have released a JavaScript implementation of the OpenPGP specification that allows users to encryp...

Article | 18/11/2011 Google Chrome update addresses high-severity flaw

Google has released an update for Chrome 15 which addresses a high-risk vulnerability. The security issue is the result of an out-of-bounds memory wri...

Article | 18/11/2011 ISC patches BIND denial-of-service flaw that crashed servers worldwide

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), an organization that maintains several software products critical for Internet infrastructure, has released a p...

Article | 17/11/2011 Google offers opt-out method for Wi-Fi geolocation mapping

Google is offering wireless network owners worldwide the possibility of opting out from its Wi-Fi geolocation mapping efforts, in the wake of a decisi...