Cisco has just “enhanced” the security of their website by forcing you to enter two secret questions and answers when you register for an account. To quote Bruce Schneier: It’s a great idea from a customer service perspective — a user is less likely to forget his first pet’s name than some random password — […]
Both the Independent and the Times Online reported yesterday that the UK police wants to be able to search computers remotely, without the need for a search warrant. Some of the methods that might be used include installing keyloggers, hacking wireless networks and installing backdoors on the suspect’s PC: Police might also send an e-mail […]
And it’s not because Twitter is buying tons of Dell gear; Dell is using Twitter for advertising, and people are willingly signing up to receive these messages. Quoting InternetNews: Less altruistically, some businesses have discovered that Twitter is an effective way of communicating with consumers. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) says Twitter has produced $1 million in […]
Here’s why. Google is now offering their Adsense clients advertising on the iPhone and G1 phones. Here’s the short version of what happened in the last two years: Google noticed a trend: more people were starting to access the internet from their mobile phones But there were no mobile phones that could display their ads […]
Just in time for the holidays, a new bug has been found in Internet Explorer that enables hackers to execute arbitrary code. This was first reported by McAfee: The root cause was found to be the incorrect handling of certain XML tags in Internet Explorer 7.x that references already freed memory in the mshtml.dll. We […]
Security4all has a post about a new (or rather: updated) tool from Microsoft. The title, “Patching offline virtual machines” immediately captured my attention; unfortunately, the tool doesn’t enable offline patching just yet. Here’s the description of the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool: The tool uses “servicing jobs” to manage the update operations based on lists of […]
There was a lot of talk today about Chrome’s market share. It started with a curious editor at Cnet: So I persuaded CNET’s tech guys to give a window on what’s going on here at CNET News. The result surprised me: 3.6 percent of those visiting the site in October used Chrome, up from […]
Security firm Secunia has just released the first official version of their Personal Software Inspector. This application is a free version of their Network Software Inspector, and will scan a personal computer for necessary updates: The Secunia PSI is an invaluable tool for you to use when assessing the security patch state of software installed […]
This is a quick warning: there is no WordPress 2.6.4 release; if you see notices that you need to upgrade to this version check them very carefully. A fake wordpress website appeared earlier today at wordpresz.org; it looked the same but offered a fake 2.6.4 release containing a backdoor. Craig Murphy has all the details. […]
I somehow missed this news last week: Google is starting to actively alert people using the Webmaster Tools when one of their sites is running outdated software that might have know vulnerabilities. Right now the checks are limited to WordPress 2.1.1, which has some serious security issues, but if this is a success the service […]
