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- IM attacks up 25ò0in April 2006
- IM attacks up 25ò0in April 2006IM attackingI can concurr on this as my firewall/routing logs have also shown a substantial amount of "hits" through my gateway. A pitfall of NAT routing is the machine that is in the DMZ has to also do it's own filtering. And out of that...
- Tags: Instant messaging, NETWORKING, IM Attacks, IM
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- Botnet drama: database theft, IM attacks, financial fraud
- Botnet drama: database theft, IM attacks, financial fraudThere will always be a need...for Suzi Turner and everyone else who fights malware. The sad reality is that most people are bothered when I try to discuss the need for updating definitions, installing firewalls, or patching the OS. And these...
- Tags: Instant messaging, database theft, IM Attacks, BotNet, financial fraud, IM, financial, database
- Discussion threads 2006-03-16
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- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeoverStandardsWhat I want to know, does the "standards" mode remove previous IE hacks? For example, using the underscore in CSS statements would be ignored by every browser except IE. If IE8 now supports standards but STILL reads the underscore hack, this could be a...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, IE8, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Adrian
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?
- Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?Bad guys don't need applauseJust money. So they'll modestly attempt to avoid receiving their due when they compromise systems. I wouldn't assume that not hearing about a success means the success has not occurred.Also, this statement is confusing:Now, we have the...
- Tags: SECURITY, flaw, exploit code, Bad Guys, exploit
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?
- Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?SSH?I thought that was for a secure shell (port 23 i believe) to transfer files vs unsecure FTP (port 21)... SSL (port 443) is whats used in browsers for secure websites...unless im mistaken.It matched it a long time agoThe Distrust extension does what this...
- Tags: Web browsers, SSL/TLS, Authentication/Encryption, SECURITY, Mozilla team, privacy feature, IE privacy feature, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, SSH, SSL
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?
- Perspectives, hatched at Carnegie Mellon, thwarts so-called "Man in the Middle" attacks on SSH secure sites by creating a virtual notary that can check the validity of an unsigned security certificate. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Identity theft for the hip blogger on-the-go?
- Identity theft for the hip blogger on-the-go?ewwwTotally insane. We're having enough problems with REGULAR identity theft, and everyone knows IM messages aren't secure, look at that congressman who got his page fetish exposed in national news. No thanks, I'll stick with a standard spreadsheet and trustedid.
- Tags: Blogging, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- News to know: Psystar vs. Apple; WGA; Linux under attack; FAA failure
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: News.com: Psystar responds to Apple suit, will countersue Sam Diaz: Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit? Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practices...
- Tags: FAA, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Attack, Psystar, Linux, Bluetooth, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.
- The next time you get the urge to enter angry messages to phishers on fake malicious Web sites, stop and consider this discovery by researcher Joe Stewart. The identity thieves behind the Asprox botnet have built extra logic into phishing sites to detect taunts and subject those...
- Tags: Identity Thief, Asprox, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Banking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Financial Services, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
- Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkitLinux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkitLOL! And the hits to linux just keep coming! So thats 4 different incidents within a week's time of how badly linux sucks. Poor linus must be hiding under his bed trying...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Rootkits, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, SSH, attack, Compromised SSH, Compromised, Microsoft Windows, rootkit, security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
- The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team CERT has issued a warning for what it calls "active attacks" against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system, and then uses local kernel exploits to...
- Tags: Linux, SSH, Attack, U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Google Android loses Bluetooth API, Bluetooth still lives
- Google has dropped both the Bluetooth and GTalkService IM APIs from the Android 0.9 beta SDK. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, SDK, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Go ahead...bring in your laptop
- Go ahead...bring in your laptopWe allow people to use their ownso long as they allow me to install security software and updates and inspect the machines at my discretion. Those who do use their own see this as me doing them a favor, not the other way around.I use my...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Cyberthreats, network, Go-Ahead, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- An argument about switching costs
- An argument about switching costsJust a question...If you're going to be using Windows desktop apps with Sun Ray's, doesn't that mean you'll have to deploy Windows Terminal Server too?Why not drop the cost of Sun Ray and just use WTS (if you're paying for it anyway)?RiskThe core of Dr. Dogs...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Switching Costs, WTS, information technology, Murph, Sun Ray, window
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Microsoft confirms 'InPrivate' IE 8
- When Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 browser makeover ships later this year, it will feature several nifty privacy features aimed at giving surfers control over their Web footprints. One week after bloggers discovered clues that IE 8 will include a private browsing (ahem, porn mode), Microsoft used the...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Facebook refuses to fix obvious security flaw
- [ UPDATE:Â Facebook has reversed itself and fixed this vulnerability ]Â The Register's Dan Goodin has the scoop on an obvious security vulnerability that's being ignored by the powers at Facebook. The issue, as demonstrated by this proof-of-concept, shows...
- Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Security, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Microsoft to roll out more granular 'porn mode' with IE 8
- Microsoft to roll out more granular 'porn mode' with IE 8Sex is a shameful thing?You can look at Internet porn all day and night and not libido.There's no libido there.Is this human nature to see naked as unnatural,dirty or even wrong?Or is it that you don't want your significant other...
- Tags: Web browsers, porn mode, IE 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fightIt's going to be a short fightFlash is so technically inferior to Silverlight in virtually every capacity that it is already dead. Real developers have avoided web development effectively ceding it to the html weenies as the web has always been a truly...
- Tags: Channel management, Web browsers, Microsoft Silverlight, developer, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Open source microblogging
- Open source microbloggingCorrectionThanks for the article on Laconi.ca/Identi.ca! I'm a hugely happy Laconi.ca user.One correction: you referenced Trac, when in reality "track" the verb is what you meant. Tracking is real-time notification of messages containing a particular keyword that you specify, and is available for Identi.ca (with more Laconi.ca versions...
- Tags: Twitter, open source, Laconi.ca
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Mandatory email
- Mandatory emailWe need better emailFrankly, email is currently broken - spam and scams and phishing make it a mess to wade through, even with the best spam blocking stuff.Problem is, we decided to use "adaptive filtering" statistical junk rather than solid encryption and digital signatures. What do the spammers do?...
- Tags: e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
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