In yesterday’s patches from Adobe, it was interesting to note the following in the acknowledgments section: Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team Indeed, if you read through Tavis’ collection of exploit reports, you’ll find he’s frequently requesting acknowledgement as “Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team” or “Tavis Ormandy of Google, Inc.” It seems [...]

Just because the word “security” appears in a company name or person’s title, it doesn’t necessarily mean those entities are really trying to help protect you against danger, loss, and criminals. Sometimes, they become the danger, loss, and criminals. Two examples of that this week: Goatse Security manipulated an AT&T Web server and stole ICC [...]