Monday, June 4th, 2012
About 900 million Windows computers get their updates from Microsoft Update. In addition to the DNS root servers, this update system has always been considered one of the weak points of the net. Antivirus people have nightmares about a variant of malware spoofing the update mechanism and replicating via it.
Turns ...
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Ever since I moved into this apartment complex I have received monthly emails from rentpayment.com (a service from YapStone) as a reminder to pay my rent with a handy "click here to pay" type of link included. Whenever I would click that link I would be immediately logged into the ...
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
This is a great list of 65 open source projects to replace various security applications that you are probably running right now. I personally use most of them and it's great to see such a thorough list like this posted all in one place.
Source:
http://www.datamation.com/security/65-open-source-replacements-for-security-software-1.html
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
HTTPS Everywhere is a produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links ...
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Saturday, February 25th, 2012
This is pretty bad. All you need to know is the person's email address to find out their phone number. Thank you, AT&T.
https://www.att.com/olam/enterEmailForgotId.myworld
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