Good initiative from the Belgian banks: A campaign will start soon to warn the end-users about risks of financial fraud on the Internet (in association with Febelfin (Fédération belge du secteur financier), the FCCU (Federal Computer Crime Unit) and the CBFA (Commission bancaire, financière et des assurances). The banks will
The new LinkedIn is out!
After some availability issues today, the LinkedIn website has been revamped! A new interface with new features! Customizable modules on the homepage A “working on” feature (some king of /me IRC command, funny!) … (much more I suppose)
Rediscover the Web!
New Firefox logo. I’m ready to rediscover the Web! 😉
BGP DoS
On 25th February, YouTube was unreachable on the Internet for more than one hour. The problem came from Pakinstan! Pakistan authorities decided to filter an “offending” video. There are two major Internet providers overthere. The good one decided to redirect YouTube traffic to a proxy and ban the video. The
Brrrrrrr!
In a previous post, I talked about whole disk encryption. More and more security incidents are reports by medias were laptop are stolen or list in the nature with thousands of ultra-confidential-top-secret-data. That’s why disk encryption becomes a hot topic at the moment. A “hot” topic? In fact, it’s more
while(true) { reboot(); }
For the family usage, we have a laptop running Vista. Yesterday, the system suddenly requested to restart the OS without alternative. After the first reboot, I got the following screen: The laptop started an infinite loop of patch install, reboot, patch install, reboot, … I googled the message and found
You said “Goolag”?
The Cult of the Death Cow team is back with a new toy called Goolag. One more time, the Google search engine power is diverted to help webmasters to find security breaches in their web site(s). Of course, as a good boy, you will always use Goolag against your own
Why Reboot?
I just read a blog post whick talks about a very nice small tool: WhyReboot?. Helas for us, often when we install a new application on a Windows system, the last message is: “To complete the installation, Windows must be rebooted“. In fact, it’s not the OS itself which requires
More TrueCrypt Stress Tests
Now that I’ve a fully encrypted disk… Let’s stress it! Just after the encryption process, I started Windows Update and installed 22 (!) patches. This operation generated lot of I/O. The system speed was “normal” (well, slow but normal for a P3 system). No big issue! No software complaint. It’s
M$ Patch Joke
623MB of patches? WTF!