I wrote an article which recommends OpenDNS to FritzBox users to use OpenDNS to filter malicious domains and perform parental control on the traffic that gets into their home routers. & And now, not a week later I see: Cisco made a big acquisition offer to OpenDNS and they accepted it. Wow, what a news! Read here the […]
If you are living in Germany, Austria or Switzerland, there is a high chance that you are using one of the AVM’s FritzBox for your broadband connection. The FritzBox is a very small device which runs a PowerPC processor and between 16 and 32 MB RAM. This is almost nothing! So, you can’t install antivirus […]
You thought that there are only Advanced Persistent Threats and Spear Phishing? Here is a new one : Targeted Ads. This time it might not be so dramatic, but imagine that you sent this to a lot of people. How many do you think that will register? So, what’s the catch? If there are […]
I wrote in the post Do you really know who’s visiting your website? about how often hackers probe my websites. IT Security News has of today this: 5,914 blocked malicious login attempts / was 2092 on May 8th 2,182 spam comments blocked by Akismet. / was 2115 on May 8th The login attempts more than doubled in just 5 […]
NIST is pleased to announce the release of Special Publication 800-82, Revision 2, Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security. Link to the full news announcement about this Special Publication (SP 800-82 Revision 2) can be found on the CSRC News page at: http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/#june8b Direct link to the SP 800-82 Revision 2 document (in .PDF) […]
Ever tried to get the version of an MSI package on Linux ? Exiftool doesn’t do that, unfortunately. I requested it in the forum, let’s see if somebody jumps on it. 🙂 Until then, try to use the system utility “file” and do some parsing on the bold red text. #file google.msi: Composite Document File […]
I have several websites, but the most visited by far is IT Security News (http://www.ITSecurityNews.info). I receive a lot of spam in it which is caught by the plugin Akismet of WordPress. But, from time to time, I receive an email directed to info@ or other addresses. The latest one looks like the screenshot below and I […]
We live in the world of Analytics where words like “Big Data” are everywhere to be seen. But, are you really sure that the visitors of your website or blog are really interested in your content? A few years ago, maybe… But now, the cybercriminals, or more exactly their bots, are trying to gain access […]
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 […]
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