Google bypass Safari privacy settings

Google using code in their ads to bypass the privacy settings of safari users to know about their searching behavior. Safari - famous for worry-free web that means to prevent companies from tracking the cookies generated by the websites you visit, Safari blocks third-party cookies by default. The privacy breach was uncovered by Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student in computer Relevant Products/Services science at Stanford University with an interest in Cyber Security. Google has immediately issued a statement saying that the Journal mis-characterized what happened and why, and claiming that they used a known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled.

Zscalar ThreatLabz Free Web Risk Analysis Service

Zulu - a free service from Zscalar that scans websites for potential threats. This service uses mix of proprietary-based and open-source tools to scan sites and provide security ratings. Threat rating is done through the use of heuristics, reputation and host domain analysis for a particular URL. It supports direct URLs as well as addresses masked with URL shortening services. These days web-based threats are so dynamic and this service ensures that continually updated content, fed from proprietary Zscaler and public sources, is combined to identify even newly deployed web-based threats.

Opensource intrusion detection & prevention engine

The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) has released version 1.0 of its open source intrusion detection and prevention engine – Suricata. The first stable release includes a number of improvements and new features over the previous development releases, such as support for DCERPC over UDP and the tag keyword. Unlike Snort, another popular open source network intrusion prevention and detection system, Suricata runs multi-threaded and offers a number of advanced configuration options.

The OISF is funded by several US agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security's Directorate for Science and Technology HOST program (Homeland Open Security Technology) and various members of the OISF Consortium, including a number of specialist IT security companies.

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