It's been quite a busy month, still I've managed to keep my blog up to date with over 30 posts during January, here they are with short summaries. Thanks for the comments folks!I often get the question, how many people is my blog attracting, the answer is quantity doesn't matter, but the quality of the visits, still, for January there were 7,562 unique visits and over 13,000 pageloads. I'm
Tuesday, 31 January 2006
Monday, 30 January 2006
Was the WMF vulnerability purchased for $4000?!
Posted on 11:58 by Unknown
Going through Kaspersky's latest summary of Malware - Evolution, October - December 2005, I came across a research finding that would definitely go under the news radar, as always, and while The Hackers seem to be more elite than the folks that actually found the vulnerability I think the issue itself deserves more attention related to the future development of a market for 0day
How we all get 0wn3d by Nature at the bottom line?
Posted on 11:44 by Unknown
I just came across a clip courtesy of NASA that can be described as a beautiful devastation, still it reminds me of how insecure we are at the bottom line. And no, I don't see how you will distribute a signature for this, or can you? :)Technorati tags :katrina, security
Twisted Reality
Posted on 08:04 by Unknown
I looked up the definition of Evil today, and I found it, I tried to play a Google War and came across 256 million occurrences of it, still there's a hope for all of us I guess. On the 17th of January I blogged on how China turned into the biggest black spot on the Internet's map, to find out that I even have activists commenting in my blog :)Google has agreed to "remove certain sensitive
Thursday, 26 January 2006
Skype to control botnets?!
Posted on 06:55 by Unknown
I just read an article from CNET on how "Skype could provide botnet controls", with which I totally disagree. Skype and VoIP communications can actually provide botner herders with the opportunity to communicate, compared to acting as a platform for malicious attacks. And old fashioned DDoS attacks the way we know them work damn well as a concept. Years ago, quite some :) linux boxes worming was
Personal Data Security Breaches - 2000/2005
Posted on 04:31 by Unknown
Another invaluable CRS report that I came across to, including detailed samples of all the data security breaches in between 2000 and 2005(excluding the ones not reported or still undergoing of course), covering :- The accident- Data publicized- Who was affected- Number of affected- Type of data compromised- Source of the infoHere are some cases worth mentioning as well :1. Indiana University -
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
The Feds, Google, MSN's reaction, and how you got "bigbrothered"?
Posted on 05:23 by Unknown
There's still a lot of buzz going on, concerning which search engine provided what type of data to law enforcement officials, and the echo effect of this event resulted in waves of angry end users, that among feeling "bigbrothered", now have yet another reason to switch back to Google, simple. MSN's silent reaction to this is the worst thing they could do given how actively they're trying to
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