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
Tag: Software
Software Easter Eggs and Security?
An interesting thread started last Friday on /.: Would You Add Easter Eggs To Software Produced At Work? Easter eggs are hidden message present in movies or softwares (or any kind of medias). It’s a tradition for developers to code some funny features or messages in their softwares. To show
Safe File Eraser on Linux
Working as a security consultant, my laptop contains a lot of confidential data: corporate data (emails, procedures, contacts list, etc) and, even more critical, temporary customers data (reports, documentations, network topologies, packet captures, etc ). That’s why data protection is a key point for me. First, data are encrypted using
Secunia PSI 1.0 (Final) Has Been Released
Secunia announced in its blog the availability of PSI 1.0 (Personal Software Inspector). This is a must have to keep track of unpatched or end-of-life applications!
Safe(r) Surfing with Finjan
A interesting Firefox add-on was recommended by a colleague today. It increases your security while looking for content on popular search engines: “Finjan SecureBrowsing is a free service that proactively alerts you to potential malicious content hiding behind links of search results, ads and other selected web pages. Finjan SecureBrowsing
Test your IPSEC VPN Systems with ike-scan
I found a nice tool today: ike-scan via another blog. “ike-scan is a command-line tool for discovering, fingerprinting and testing IPsec VPN systems. It constructs and sends IKE Phase-1 packets to the specified hosts, and displays any responses that are received.” The documentation give also a nice introduction of the
iKeepass Close to be Released on AppStore!
A few months ago, I talked about iKeepass. They are news on the blog! The first version is close to be released on AppStore. Other news, this release will be read-only: “Version 1 of iKeePass will be read only, you can just view your KeePass databases. In upcoming versions there
MetaSploit FrameWork 3.2 Released
MetaSploit 3.2 has been released! “Austin, Texas, November 19th, 2008 — The Metasploit Project announced today the free, world-wide availability of version 3.2 of their exploit development and attack framework. The latest version is provided under a true open source software license (BSD) and is backed by a community-based development
Time to Patch your Old OpenSSH! (4.7p1)
The SANS ISC diary just reported that a quite old version of OpenSSH (4.7p1 to be precise) suffers of a plaintext recovery attack vulnerability. It’s time to upgrade your old OpenSSH! (Current release of 5.1)
AVG Antivirus Breaks Your Windows!
It has been reported that an AVG upgrade caused the anti-virus to recommend to delete a critical file on the Windows operating system: user32.dll! A new signature was quickly published to correct this problem but a lot of AVG users were forced to restore the delete file using the Windows