Nov 30
I recently read a PC World article about a Google page that has a form where you can report a malicious website (a site with bad content like viruses and the like). It’s a new feature that Google unveiled (announcement). I found that Google will validate a url passed to it and insert it into the form. I thought this would be much better if you could click a bookmark in your browser and automatically pass the url of the current website to the Google form. So I created a bookmarklet (bookmark with javascript) and here it is.
Drag the bookmarklet link to the bookmark area of your browser. And when you click it a new window will be opened showing the Google form with the URL of the bad site filled in for you.
Bookmarklet: Report Malicious Site
Spread the word so everyone can help get rid of bad sites. Enjoy, from Jason of JasonBlogs.com.
Nov 15
PayPal has a little quiz where you can test your phishing knowledge and how well you can spot fake emails pretending to be from your bank or PayPal. They are just looking to steal your information, and you have to be careful. You can hover over links in email and it may look legit but long urls can hide the actual website toward the end of the link.
Take the challenge. I took it and I’m a champion, as you can see.
Oct 23
Mac OS X Leopard will add a few new layers of security to OS X with memory randomization, application sandboxing, a better firewall, signed applications, and more. Here I have put a few of them together. The memory randomization and application sandboxing are some of the big new ones that will help secure OS X. [...]
More: continued here
Aug 31
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146,000 people using a jobs Web site sponsored by the U.S. government (USAjobs.gov) had their personal information stolen by hackers who broke into computers at Monster. Data stolen did not include social security numbers.
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Sony is closing it’s CONNECT music store and opening up its music players to other formats. Wow. Now that’s how you take on the iPod. Too bad they still won’t win.
Aug 17
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Antibacterial soaps show no health benefits over plain soaps and, in fact, may render some common antibiotics less effective, says a University of Michigan public health professor.
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In a bid to improve browser security, both within Firefox and among competing browsers, the Mozilla Foundation Thursday announced several open-source security testing tools, in addition to several security enhancements coming with Firefox 3, scheduled for
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Opera Software found and patched what it’s calling a “highly severe” bug in its flagship browser, using a security tool released by its competitor, Mozilla.
Aug 05
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Staples will accept any brand of used desktop and notebook computers, monitors, printers, fax machines and all-in-one devices with a fee of $10. Smaller items like keyboards, mice and speakers are free to drop off. TVs will not be accepted.
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I would want a WiFi phone, but I worry about what kind of security it has. Since public WiFi hotspots are usually insecure and can’t be trusted. Plus I don’t have an extreme need for one.
Aug 04
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DefCon security on Friday warned attendees at the annual hacker conference that Dateline NBC may have sent a mole with a hidden camera to the event to capture hackers admitting to crimes. She wound up being the one who was outed.
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Plaxo, the online address book, will try to recreate itself as an open social network called “Pulse” beginning Monday. Check out the article for details and screenshots.
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Nintendo’s popular game console outpaces Sony’s by a ratio of 4 to 1 in July, selling at double the price of the basic PS3. In June the ratio was 6 to 1. Still nice.
Jan 03
“Microsoft Corp. said today it does not plan to release a fix for the Windows Metafile (WMF) flaw until Jan. 10, when a patch will be included as part of the company’s scheduled monthly updates for January.
Microsoft has completed development of a patch for the flaw and is now testing it for quality and application compatibility, the company said in an advisory updating an earlier advisory released last week.”
Via Computerworld
The SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center has an unofficial patch for the Windows .WMF flaw. And from their WMF FAQ: “The WMF vulnerability uses images (WMF images) to execute arbitrary code. It will execute just by viewing the image. In most cases, you don’t have click anything. Even images stored on your system may cause the exploit to be triggered if it is indexed by some indexing software.”
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