Monday, May 5th, 2008 If you think of flash memory, people typically think of USB memory sticks or memory cards for digital cameras and camcorders. But the potential applications for flash have expanded tremendously. The media started off as non-volatile memory for firmware on PCs and consumer electronics devices. It then became an ultra-portable ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Sounds more of an annoyance than it does "malicious" but the folks over at Spyware Sucks has an interesting post about a bad flash banner being posted on Livejournal.com. I just thought I'd share.
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Monday, April 21st, 2008 Almost everyone knows what CSRF or better unauthorized requests are. I never really embraced CSRF as the correct term for unauthorized request issues, because the term is outdated and inadequate to contemporary hacking. For me, an unauthorized request is the layer or automation of a hacking procedure without direct interference ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008 It's no secret that there are a lot of strange USB devices out there, particularly flash drives. Not a comprehensive list, but we've sure seen Lego, twigs, action figures, bowling balls, sushi, anatomical parts, transparent drives, erasers, cassette tapes and on and on and on.Despite all that, the picture above ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 A cartoon that ridicules the efforts of a Chinese gymnast at the Olympic games is the latest ploy used by cyber-criminals to infect Windows PCs, according to McAfee Avert labs.While the movie files, which show the cartoon followed by images supporting a free Tibet, are playing, a keystroke logging tool, ...
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