Archive for 'Internet'
What a pretty mess: a botnet map
Security people can talk until they’re blue in the face about the dangers of unsecured Windows PCs and how they can be used in botnets. Does anyone listen?
Well, it sure doesn’t seem like it some days. Perhaps this Botnet map from CSO will help get the message across.
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Posted: May 8th, 2008 under Desktop, Internet, Security.
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Malware vs. anti-malware, 20 years into the fray
As I recall, Nov. 2, 1988, started as an ordinary day at Goddard Space Flight Center where I was working in the data communications branch. By the end of the day … well, actually, that day never ended. We just kept fighting to bring our servers and networks back to life. Our SunOS [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2008 under Desktop, Internet, Security.
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Is Microsoft at fault for Web site cracking spree?
Last week was a lousy week for Web site administrators. Depending on your expert of choice anywhere from just over a hundred-thousand to half-a-million plus Web pages had been hacked to turn this into malware-spewing portals.
Panda, the security company, suggested that a recently unveiled ‘elevation of privilege’ flaw that could be used on XP SP2, [...]
Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Internet, Network, Security, Web Services.
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CAPTCHA Meltdown
It seems like it was the just the other day that I was writing about how CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was quickly becoming completely useless for Web security. Actually, it was just the other day-two days ago-but I was wrong. CAPTCHA is already completely useless.
I found the [...]
Posted: April 25th, 2008 under Internet, Security, Web Services.
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Sorry, I’m not feeling social today
Please. I don’t want to Link In with you today. I don’t want to see your Face, or read your Book. It’s not that I don’t like you. I do. I’d Twitter with you anytime. It’s just that if I get asked to join one more social network, I’m going to scream.
You wouldn’t like that. [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2008 under Internet, Network, Web Services.
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