Seeing Paul’s post on Microsoft’s live.com webapp offerings prompted me to pen some quick thoughts on something related to this that I came across a bit ago. I read about the new live.com webapps and figured I’d give them a try (hear something about it on a blog or podcast or something). Going to get.live.com […]
Thoughts on Microsoft’s Webapps at Live.com Read Post »
You can make the best firewalls, or the coolest piece of security software, but as this experiment shows you still have the very big factor of human nature to overcome. Basically these guys wrote a trojan and put it on a bunch of those small USB memory sticks that are the latest give away gimick.
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I know that this isn’t a threat, but messages like these have been showing up in my nightly logwatch email for a few months now: Failed logins from these: admin/password from 218.8.127.193: 9 Time(s) backup/password from 218.24.205.20: 3 Time(s) computer/password from 218.24.205.20: 3 Time(s) guest/password from 218.8.127.193: 7 Time(s) info/password from 218.24.205.20: 4 Time(s) master/password
SSH Exploit Annoyances Read Post »
< p>An interesting look at why Windows and the Mac are different security wise (OSNews story). One difference between Mac OS X and Windows, however, is that Mac OS X doesn
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Great message posted to the Bugtraq security list showing how easy it is to execute code on the “secure by default” Outlook 2003. Maybe the much touted security cleanup at Redmond isn’t as good as some think. By “easy” above I mean “easy as described by someone who does this sort of thing for a
Went to a website in Firefox and got this. Guess they are an equal-opportunity privacy invader! Just a wake up call to always read what is on the screen before clicking “ok”. That and legitimate websites don’t ever need you to install anything to visit them.
Wow, Smarter Spyware Read Post »