Ryan Cleary alias “ViraL”, one of the three hackers who conspired to bring down 4chan with a DDoS attack, posted this threatening comment on my blog the other day. ViraL on August 21st, 2008 at 2:02 pm Are you serious right now? Remove all material on us from your site or it won’t come back...
I was informed by Baldwin Ng, Senior Product Manager of the Microsoft Solutions Accelerators Team of Microsoft of a recent addition to the MAP Toolkit: the Security Assessment for Client Machines feature. Therefore the MAP toolkit is not only useful if you plan to deploy Windows Vista, it would be useful...
Over the weekend, thousands of websites inexplicably crashed when browsed via Internet Explorer 7. The common thing about them is that they all use Sitemeter and a bug in the site tracking service caused all the havoc.
Sitemeter has promptly fixed the issue:
Dear SiteMeter Users,
We corrected...
Once again, I watched kick-a$$ Microsoft security guru Steve Riley in the Microsoft Asia Security Roadshow held in Microsoft Philippines on March 14, 2008. Some notes I would like to share: TCP/IP Stack developed in the 70's used in the 90's We have to remember that the TCP/IP protocol stack...
Why not? I've always advocated the importance of proper implementation of the Software Asset Management (SAM) practice in organizations as part of its network security strategy. By ensuring that only legitimate software is used, then the organization can prevent the risks involved in using pirated...
Banco de Oro sent out a security bulletin to all its customer about a recent internet scam being circulated in emails that is part of a bigger modus operandi.
The scam being circulated through email attempts to lure recipients into giving details of their account and other information so that this...
One of the requirements for our current application is to authenticate the users using their LDAP server. We were able to use it for authentication for our current setup. By the way, the NativeObject property of the DirectoryEntry class should be included in the API Hall of Shame of Brad Adams. It should...
i got an IM from a friend this afternoon telling me of this site: http://geocities.com/who_wants_my_picture/ (warning, don't supply your user/password) tried to access the site and saw the yahoo login page. immediately i realized that it was a phishing site. out of curiosity, i clicked the signin button...
i was looking for a component/control development company in the Philippines (which i doubt that there exists) when i stumbled into this link: http://www.logon-int.com/Product.asp?sClassId=COMPO&sProdClassCode=DOT-P-0006 i tried to search for the Philippines keyword and guess where the browser sent...
i'm surprised to know just now that gmail does not allow compressed attachment files containing executables (sending and receiving). thumbs up for security, now i have to rename my installer files to a non-exe, :p...