Thứ Năm, 29 tháng 4, 2010

Please join me in congratulating the editors of FCM (Full Circle Magazine), for reaching their 3rd anniversary.Lets hope they'll get to including some security related stuffage at some point too ;o)Wow! I can’t believe it’s been three years. The release of issue 36 (and Lucid Lynx!) marks the 3rd anniversary of FCM. We’ve gone far from those first posts in the Ubuntu Forums and we have you — all

Thứ Ba, 27 tháng 4, 2010

Hat tip to Bill for the heads up. I've known about Sumatra for a while, but kept forgetting about it.Adobe makes extra money every time someone downloads and installs the Google Toolbar. I usually know better but even I didn’t see the check box in my haste to download most recent Acrobat reader. Given the number of vulnerabilities that keep occurring with the Acrobat reader I always recommend

Chủ Nhật, 25 tháng 4, 2010

Accredited by ICANN as of March 25th 2010, Turkey based registrar, Alantron (alantron.com, 212.175.233.69 - mailer2.alantron.com, TurkTelecom AS9121) has been a thorn in the side of the internet community, with so far, not a single legit domain having been registered by their "customers" (that I've seen). Every single one has been either spam/fraud (1, 2, 3), malware (1) or exploits.If you
I don't speak Polish, but the Google translation suggests xorg.pl advertises themselves as a free domain provider, much like dot.tk. The problem of course, is that like dot.tk, their service gets abused to hell and back.Normally, this wouldn't have earnt them a place in the crimeware friendly list. However, an exception has to be made in this case for one specific reason - the malicious "aliases"

Thứ Năm, 22 tháng 4, 2010

You'd have thought, given the amount of bad publicity that companies have received over the years, about their rather lackadaisical approach to your privacy, that they'd have learnt from their mistakes and started to take it a little more seriously - alas, not surprisingly, those of you thinking company x, y or z can be trusted - are very very wrong.Lets take Tagged for example, who were sued by

Thứ Tư, 21 tháng 4, 2010

hpHOSTS - UPDATED April 21st, 2010The hpHOSTS Hosts file has been updated. There is now a total of 127,058 listed hostsnames.If you are NOT using the installer, please read the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions. Enjoy! :)Latest Updated: 21/04/2010 21:00Last Verified: 21/04/2010 06:00Download hpHosts now!http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

Thứ Hai, 19 tháng 4, 2010

If you are hosting your site at Hostek.com, you are probably at a higher risk of being hacked. Why? Because they do not do the proper separation of accounts internally, so anyone can access the pages of everyone else.How do we know that? We were helping a friend with his site over there and when we checked their permissions, we found a big (BIG) security hole on Hostek. Every PHP script is