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Category Archives: Security
Cool, I’m quoted in Network World, uncool, it’s got a small error…
A pretty good article about the upcoming LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World Conference and expo came out in the online magazine Network World today. I was even quoted in it at the bottom of the second page. It was an interesting interview, and … Continue reading
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Wireless Drivers provide a backdoor to hack your computer..
Interesting article, and I would love to see this presentation at the BlackHat conference. Jon Ellch and David Myanor will be showing off how they can hijack a MacBook laptop in about 60 seconds using vulnerabilities in the wireless card … Continue reading
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Locking down Mac OS X
Ok, I recently have been given the opportunity to play around with a new MacBook Pro 15″ laptop (Mac OS X 10.4 – Tiger). So far I’m impressed, clean easy to use user interface with a nice Unix/BSD system underneath. … Continue reading
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Microsoft Security Patches en mass…
Well, Microsoft patch tuesday has delivered a whole host of critical security patches to MS Windows, Office, Explorer, and others. Several of these are actively exploited and can lead to some stranger in a far away land running whatever software … Continue reading
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Mozilla/FireFox/Thunderbird update time again…
Well, more security bugs in the Mozilla, FireFox, Thunderbird batch of programs. There are about 5 bugs that could allow an evil website to run a program on your computer with your user permissions. Not actively exploited at the moment, … Continue reading
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Spammers get scammed :-)
Ok first good story I’ve heard about spammers, though it’s not all good news. Apparently there are some card scammers that use stolen credit card numbers to buy goods and get paid by spammers and then run with the goods … Continue reading
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MS Word and Yahoo Messenger Worms/Trojans
Ok, two nasty little vulnerabilities people should be aware of have popped up. First, late last week, a security hole in MS Word was revealed and a corresponding trojan virus that takes advantage of it. More information can be found … Continue reading
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Sad times for security research
Here is a very good article about Security researchers going to jail for doing the right thing. They find a flaw in some instituition/company website, one that exposes valuable or personal information, and they do the good deed and tell … Continue reading
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Big security holes in Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey
Time to run the update cycle. Some fairly significant security holes were found in most all of the Mozilla Foundations products. These security holes could allow someone to run any program they want on your computer as the user you … Continue reading
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LinuxWorld/OpenSolutionsWorld next week
Well, I’m getting ready for LinuxWorld/OpenSolutionsWorld next week. Not to much to do, most things I’m responsible for, I’ve taken care of. Looking forward to it. I hope people enjoy the Security Track I’ve put together. Guess I’ll know soon. … Continue reading
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