Security
« Previous EntriesOne More Reason Not To Use IE
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010In a recent security advisory from Microsoft, Microsoft is investigating public reports of a VBscript vulnerability that is exposed on windows 2000, XP and 2003 servers. If you press F1 in Internet Explorer, it could allow for your PC to be taken over by remote attackers. Microsoft stated The main impact of the vulnerability is [...]
Microsoft Makes Firefox Vulnerable
Monday, October 19th, 2009If you haven’t already heard about this, earlier this year Microsoft released a .NET plugin for Firefox that opened Firefox up to some serious vulnerabilities. The Mozilla foundation found out about this and released an update, which blocks this plugin and give a notification somewhere along the lines of: Firefox has determined that the following [...]
Conficker worm to Spread April 1st, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Sorry all for not ahving time to write a little more digest version of this important news brief, but here is an excerpt from Inside Tech, with a link to the original article from Daily Tech below. As a reminder, Update, Update, Update! ‘The worm that won’t go away will get an upgrade on April [...]
Biometrics: Veins to replace fingerprints
Friday, November 14th, 2008Just recently, a new technology called finger vein authentication is gaining ground in Europe. A technology originally developed by Hitachi captures the pattern of blood vessels by transmitting near-infrared light at different angles through the finger, and then turns it into a digital code to match it against profiles already stored into the system. The [...]
Tips to secure your server (or pc)
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008I know this has been covered a thousand times over throughout the web, but many people still forget how costly it can be to leave a susceptible serverr out there on the web. The same goes for everyday people and their desktops. So, I have compiled some tips from sources all over the web that [...]
DNS Server Critical Design Flaw Leaves DNS Servers Open to Attack
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for security firm IOActive, found a critical flaw in Domain Name Servers while doing non-security research over 6 months ago. Most corporate DNS servers have already been patched, but this just shows how a new design implementation needs to be enacted to prevent things like this from happpening. The [...]