What’s the difference between this CPU usage: and this one: Only a website! After some investigations, the sites used “<marquee>” tags. It seems they are still not properly supported by Firefox! WTH!
Avoid “proxy.pac” Nightmares
Google saved my life today! I was busy to deploy a proxy.pac file at a customer premises. The problem with proxy.pac files is the difficulty to validate them. There are parsed by browsers and can quickly became a nightmare to be read by “poor humans”. There is a project on
Synjunkie: The Story of an Insider
Synjunkie is back with a new serie of very interesting posts. After The Story of a Hack [he explained how a penetration test was conducted against a fictive company], he will now explain the malicious activities of a rogue user from inside the company. It’s a real fact: the insider
Number of the Day: 1.91%
According to Secunia which grab nice data from its PSI application, only 1.91% of PC’s are fully patched: Read the report here.
Malicious Firefox Add-on Steals Passwords
It was reported by the French version of The Inquirer: it seems that a new malware is spread over the Internet presented like a false Firefox add-on! Discovered by BitDefender, the anti-virus editor, the malware was named Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A. It does not spread by itself and his installed in the local
The Duhs of Security
Security awareness video for everybody. Spread the word!
Protect Your WordPress Blog Using a “Sabre”
I hope it’s not the same for you, but I saw a dramatic increase of false registrations on my blog for a few days (spambots). I decided to take action and search for a solution. WordPress is a blogging system which can be extended by plugins. After some investigations, I
Secunia Monthly Binary Analysis (11/2008)
Secunia released its Monthly Binary Analysis for November: “The analyses issued this month cover vulnerabilities in interesting products like OpenOffice, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client, Adobe Acrobat/Reader, Microsoft XML Core Services, Trend Micro ServerProtect, and Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers.” Read the whole post: http://secunia.com/blog/36/.
Catched By Facebook!
Big BrotherFacebook is watching you! You were often warned about the risks of social networks. A lot of personal information are available and do you always really trust your friends? It’s so easy and tempting to accept new requests. The following story was reported in Melbourne: A group of young
Obscure Error Message
Today, I used a well-know service to print pictures. Such service is used by a lot of people, going from newbies to computer gurus… I logged from Firefox but the picture upload interface did not work properly with my Firefox setup so I used Internet Explorer. I opened a second