Firewalls

Firewalls help hackers break into FB, Twitter?

22 May 2012

WASHINGTON, USA: Firewall technology designed to boost security can unwittingly reveal data that could help a hacker break into Facebook and Twitter accounts, a new study says.

Firewalls can help hackers break into Facebook, Twitter

22 May 2012

Washington, May 22: Firewall technology designed to boost security can unwittingly reveal data that could help a hacker break into Facebook and Twitter accounts, a new study says.

Exploit uses firewalls to hijack smartphones, turns friends into foes

22 May 2012

Normally, firewalls at cellular carriers are your best friends, screening out malware before it ever touches your phone. University of Michigan computer science researchers have found that those first lines of defense could be your enemy through a new exploit. As long as a small piece of malware sits on a device, that handset can infer TCP data packet sequence numbers coming from the firewall ...