iPhones and Passwords
Monday April 28, 2008
Last week in Nashville I broke down and bought an Apple iPhone, and I must say so far so good. The only issue I have is the password I selected ... Read More
Windows XP Service Pack 3
Monday April 28, 2008
At the end of April 2008, Microsoft will release the final service pack for Windows XP. I set up a Windows XP machine a few weekends ago and after installing ... Read More
Catch Me If You Can
Monday April 28, 2008
Both Frank Abagnale and Kevin Mitnick proved by being nice and smooth, it can make many people give out their passwords. Even worse a hacker posing as a market researcher ... Read More
Smoking in the Boys Room
Monday April 21, 2008
Smokers seem to get picked on all the time lately, and I am going to pick on them once more. Back in my “physical security assessment” days I worked ... Read More
Upgrade to Vista SP 1
Thursday April 17, 2008
I have been using Vista since November 2006. First I installed the beta then upgraded to the released version in late 2006. Now that Service Pack 1 for Vista has ... Read More
Rootkit Detection Coming to Windows Soon
Thursday April 17, 2008
Microsoft bought a company called Komoku for its root kit detection capabilities. They plan to add it to OneCare and ForeFront in the near future.
Rootkits are the hardest malware to ... Read More
Ajax Applications: A Blueprint for Disaster
Tuesday April 15, 2008
Security experts are warning against quickly deploying Web 2.0 and have coined a phase 'premature AJAXulation'. What does THAT mean? It means if you have a web applications and acquire ... Read More
Web 2.0 Issue : Gmail cookie stolen via Google Spreadsheets
Tuesday April 15, 2008
Robert Vamosi blogged on news.com about how a web browser can be manipulated after getting a cookie from Google while using Google Spreadsheets. The details are not important, what is ... Read More
Hacker Havens
Tuesday April 15, 2008
The U.S. is making headway into gaining cooperation of countries known for being hacker havens. The most active hacker nations are currently is Romania and Russia. Council of Europe's Convention ... Read More
An Inconvenient Truth
Tuesday April 8, 2008
This weekend I had an opportunity of a lifetime to attend The Climate Project Canada training presented live by former Vice President AL Gore. What was also very exciting was ... Read More
Extending Your Security Policy to Include Mobile
Tuesday April 8, 2008
Now that mobile devices have become affordable they are being purchased by people using them for corporate and personal use. A travelling sales person buys a fancy mobile phone with ... Read More
Data Thieves Planted Malware on 300 Servers
Tuesday April 8, 2008
The company Hannaford had 4.2 million credit cards stolen. This happened by malware being installed on their point of sale (POS) devices, which means when you swiped your credit card ... Read More
Is a Master Hacker a Master Jedi?
Tuesday April 1, 2008
The hacker in modern lore is the Jedi of the computer field. In the Star Wars movies a Jedi could use the Force to be a Jedi or use the ... Read More