Zero-Day Attack Compromises a Half-Million Web Forum Accounts

Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

Forum software-makers vBulletin and Foxit Software may have been breached by a hacker claiming to have made off with personal data belonging to some 479,895 users between the two. “Coldzer0” said in a post co-authored with @Cyber_War_News that he exploited the same zero-day vulnerability for both domains, and was able to ...

Very useful system management and/or forensics platform for Windows

Friday, September 18th, 2015

WSCC is a free, portable program that allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites. WSCC can install and update the supported utilities automatically. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs. WSCC is portable, installation is not ...

Software Privdog worse than Superfish

Sunday, February 22nd, 2015

tl;dr There is a software called Privdog. It totally breaks HTTPS security in a similar way as Superfish. In case you haven't heard it the past days an Adware called Superfish made headlines. It was preinstalled on Lenovo laptops and it is bad: It totally breaks the security of HTTPS connections. The ...

Ninite – Install and Update All Your Programs at Once

Thursday, February 12th, 2015

I just recommended this to a Windows user out of sympathy and noticed that I've never actually blogged about it, so I would like you to meet Ninite (if you haven't met already - it's been around for a while now). It’s simple to use and has a large selection of ...

New version of Autoruns integrates with VirusTotal

Sunday, February 1st, 2015

The new version of Microsoft's Autoruns (version 13 - released last week) integrates the VirusTotal API for quick analysis and verification of unknown and questionable processes.  After running the program, just right-click on any entry and select Check VirusTotal: You will need to accept VirusTotal's Terms of Service by clicking Yes: Once ...