Some advertisers spammers have great ideas to send unsolicited messages to a targeted audience. Their goal is to convince the end-user to click on an advertisement. A new method seemed to appear on the web recently: They simulate a browser security warning! Often, users doesn’t even read the warning message
BGP, The Next Internet Vulnerability?
Internet is a mesh of very complex networks. All of them are interconnected in several ways and exchange data. A meshed network means that they are multiple paths available to reach a specific network. If we look at the Internet fundamentals, the “Network of Networks” relies on a small list
DiY Network Sniffer
From time to time, network administrators have to use a sniffer to capture flows of packets . In a switched environment, packets are sent from a source to a destination and only the destination host can “see” the packet. To be able to receive all the packets sent into a
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-09-14
Anobody has experience with Imperva SecureSphere WAF? # I hate working with sections in Word! # Sun + Terrasse + Wifi = Nice work # One day off and it’s raining! Grmbl…. # WordPress updated to 2.6.2 #
Secunia Opens Exploits e-Shop
Secunia announced in its blog a new service: “One Stop Exploit Shop” To resume, they will propose exploits and security breaches PoC to security professional trough their website against some $$$. As stated in the announce, after approval by Secunia (at least!), vendors and companies will have access to the
iPod Auto-Erase Feature
The new firmware 2.1 is available for the iPod and introduced a new feature: You can configure your device to automatically erase all its data after ten unsuccessful password attempts! No idea if the same feature will be present in the iPhone version (which should be available today). Nice feature
eBay Protects iPhone Buyers
The new iPhone launched two months ago was a real worldwide success. It was difficult to find one and quickly waiting lists were set up to buy the precious gadget… To protect the buyers against false iPhone available stocks, eBay increased the protection level to fight fake announces: To sell
Google Chrome Flagged As Dangerous in Germany
So much has already been written over the new Google browser (Chrome) that I did not write anything about it on this blog until now. The “BSI” (Federal Office for Information Security in Germany) warned users about the new Google toy. They recommend to not use the browser in professional
Global Security Week… Go go go!!
The Global Security Week announced by L-SEC starts today! Check out the press release for more details (fr or nl). It’s a good opportunity for all of us to promote security in our environments and ‘stick the knife in deeper’ with key facts: Use a strong password management (strong passwords,