With the broadband Internet accesses (xDSL, cable, wireless), we are always online! All modern application require access to the Net (check for new releases, support), we listen to broadcast radio, our feelings are expressed with “:-)” “:-(” on Instant Messengers… Do you remember while you used a modem to dial
Category: Websites
word_press_upgrade_count++;
One more time, it was time to upgrade my wordpress instances… Who said that computer security was exciting? forever() { if (security_issue_fount) { wait_patch(); install_path(); congratulate_yourself(); } } According to this blog, the WordPress community is vulnerable! Soon, a MoWB [1] ? [1] “Month of WordPress Bugs”
Symantec Threatcon
The Symantec threatcon is a measurement of the global threat exposure, delivered as part of Symantec DeepSight Threat Management System (as defined on their website). I added a small PHP hack which grab the current status. Check on the right frame –>
Give me the websites you visit, I’ll tell you who you are!
Read on ./: Xerox deposed a new patent: A technic to grab your age, sex, location and even your income based on the web pages you visit! Read the story.
Massive stolen eBay accounts?
Last Thursday, I created an eBay auction to sell my old PDA. Friday, the object was sold! Yepppie! But the buyer had an evaluation level of -1! It was also specified in the auction details that the delivery was only for Europe. The buyer was in the United States?!? I
Phising attack against a Belgian bank!
Today, I received the following mail: Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:30:04 +0100 (CET) From: “notice@citibank.be” To: xxxxxxx Subject: Important Notice for Citibank Customers This mail has been sent from Germany and the page is hosted in Dallas,Texas (still available @ 13:15 CET). I mailed the admins over there to
Small /. effect
Yesterday, a user put a video on its homepage on www.rootshell.be and linked in on videogalleries.com. Result: a nice small Slashdot effect! I was forced to kill all Apache instances…
Four years!
I didn’t realize that this blog was four years old! Wooooow! The first post was on January 23th, 2003.
WordPress upgrade
WordPress 2.1 is out! Lot of new features and, still better, lot of bug fixes.
Google Safe Browsing explained
Here is a nice blog entry which explains how Google’s Safe Browsing protects you.