Day: August 30, 2011
Most Federal Websites Fail to Install Add-Ons For Thwarting Site Redirects Despite Mandate
A year and a half after a White House-imposed deadline, only 23 percent of federal websites have employed mandatory security measures to prevent hackers from transferring visitors to bogus websites, a General Services Administration official told Nextgov. The George W. Bush administration in August 2008 directed all agencies to adopt by December 2009 domain name
Gmail Attack Highlights Web Insecurity
A man-in-the-middle attack that relied on an unauthorized Google SSL certificate has revived concern over whether any Web communication is really secure. A user posting to Google’s Gmail Help forum under the name “Alibo” claims to have received a warning from Google’s Chrome browser that the SSL certificate he received when visiting Gmail was a
