Underground book
Finished reading the 2000+ pages of Underground on the pocketpc last weekend. It’s been a really interesting read about hacking and has kept me entertained whilst waiting for tape restores/backups to...
View ArticleSpywareinfo under attack
I know a lot of you will have read this already, but the reason I couldn’t get to spywareinfo.com the other day wasn’t because of kazaa having a blocker in it, but because they are under a extreme DOS...
View ArticleUnlocking OSD Locked Fujitsu TFT screen
At a customer site, they had a fujitsu monitor that was really dark but when you went to change the contrast it came up with “OSD Locked”. The official manual that I could find for google said to press...
View ArticleHackers “only” get 4466 passwords.
According to reuters, security experts apparently got 4466 passwords when they started monitoring an isp’s network (with permission). Now if you ask me, that either means they don’t have a lot of...
View ArticleName spoofs in non ie browsers
I actually saw this a couple of days ago but didn’t get round to blogging it but it is now possible to spoof urls in non-ie browsers by using special encoding of characters. A lot of us know that...
View ArticleSkype password changed
hmmm – I got an email this morning stating that they were going to change my skype password in the next 24 hours due to a upgrade of their software. Why they can’t tell me that they have changed it...
View ArticleHow not to handle data loss
I had the misfortune to have to deal with a user who had received an email after their data was stolen from the University of Texas. The email mentioned that their username and email address had been...
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Get noscript installed in firefox!
There’s a new zero day exploit for firefox and internet explorer which involves javascript. So if you are running firefox, then installing NoScript will give you added protection. If you are running IE...
View ArticleMore gmail accounts are being hacked.
This afternoon I received spams from fellow colleagues at work from their gmail account. Emails went to both my personal gmail account and to my work accounts. It looks like the emails are in the sent...
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