Security

• Good End User Information On Phishing From Paypal

  24 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  PayPal - Identity Protection Resources It was a very good touch that PayPal even uses HTTPS (SSL) for their pages providing this security information so that end users can authenticate the pages …

• Move Over Chroot Apparmor Is Here

  22 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • technology security post

  -here Plugging my own product, but what the hell, it is open source :) AppArmor https://opensuse.org/Apparmor is an application security container technology for Linux. It lets you create application …

• Build Your Own Rfid Skimmer

  20 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • technology security post

  How to Build a Low-Cost, Extended-Range RFID Skimmer Oh, I’m definitely going to have to build one of these!!

• More Proof For Danger Of Allowing Arbitrary Redirect

  20 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  ZDNetAsia : Printer Friendly - Paypal fixes phishing hole

• Ing Data Loss

  20 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  (19 June 2006) Letters are being sent to 13,000 individuals whose personal data are held in a laptop computer stolen from the home of an ING US Financial Services agent. ING is instating a new …

• Bizarre Notepad Bug

  17 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • technology security post

  27B Stroke 6 Bizarre notepad bug that really exists. If you type a phrase consisting of a 4 letter word, then two three letter words, then a 5 letter word, save it, then reopen it, the text will be …

• Security time capsule opens up: SANS researcher emerges.

  25 Apr 2006 • 2 min read • security post

  ************************************************************************* SANS NewsBites April 25, 2006 Vol. 8, Num. 33 ************************************************************************* -- …

• Microsoft To End Support For Quot Outdated Quot Operating Systems

  21 Apr 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  --Microsoft to End Support for “Outdated” Operating Systems (18 April 2006) Microsoft plans to retire support for Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows ME on July 11, 2006; after that …

• Congress Trying To Soften Data Breach Notification Laws

  24 Mar 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  https://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.3997: Call your representatives now to get them to oppose this legislation. This is the bill that passed out of committee and would seriously weaken the …

• Safedisc Drm Update For Windows Xp Reduces Online Gaming Risk

  19 Mar 2006 • 1 min read • technology security post

  -risk https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=eae20f0f-c41c-44fe-84ce-1df707d7a2e9&displaylang=en This update starts the driver secdrv for SafeDisc from Macrovision at boot time …