Archive for the ‘security’ Category

Scary new exploit discovered

Seems like there’s a new type of browser exploit that can cause problems to users out there. It’s called Clickjacking and here’s how it’s described: In a nutshell, it’s when you visit a malicious website and the attacker is able to take control of the links that your browser visits....

Cruelcard Post-mortem: How my Joomla site got hacked

So, I decided to have a play with Joomla a couple of weeks ago as one of the first websites I ever built Cruelcard needed to be moved away from my Windows host and had to be rebuilt in something other than ASP. I’ve been wanting an excuse to play...

Twitter as a trojan delivery mechanism

There was an interesting write-up this morning on Kaspersi’s blog (the guys who make the antivirus) talking about a rogue Twitter profile that broadcasts links to a site spreading malware pretending to be a Flash player which then downloads and installed up to 10 banker trojans. This is not the...

Project Honeypot

I’ve just come across an interesting project called Project Honeypot. Here’s what they have to say about themselves: Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can...

Security at work

Interesting post on my mate Leo’s blog. He talks about security at work and the “emotional cost of having to deal with security your organisation imposes on you. Here’s his take: What is the cost that security is placing on our businesses and our personal movement? George Orwell never had...

All your MMSs are belong to us

Interesting article on Information Week about how Google can help someone snoop through O2s MMS databank. O2 have taken a decision to protect people’s photos by simply obfuscating the URLs, but Google can easily work it’s way through *that* barrier. MMS is a technology used to send photos using mobile...

Good to catchup

One fo the great things about taking some time off is that I get the opportunity to catch up on some things. I’m not talking about finding out which is the best acne treatment on the market, but rather catch up on my reading, things I want to do and...

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