iiScan is a new on-line vulnerability scanner for websites. It is developed by a Chinese company called NOSEC Technologies [Note: I found the name funny for a company which develops a security solution]. What’s new with iiScan? It is based on a cloud-computing! The service is free but you have
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There is no smoke without fire!
One more time, companies asked the help of the Justice to fight against Google. This time, the Google Suggest tool is the target. This service is quite simple and you probably use it on a daily basis. When you type your search terms in the search engine, Google offers keyword
Damn! I’ve been Discovered!
No, no, I didn’t perform a SQL injection attack against the FNAC website! 😉 (Thanks to Bart for the idea)
SHODAN, The Computer Search Engine
Search engines are well-known on-line tools. But not only websites can be indexed. They are plenty of search engines to find multimedia content, news and more. A new one is born: SHODAN. From the quick guide: “SHODAN lets you find servers/ routers/ etc. by using the simple search bar up
Gmail Outage Tonight
Unusual but tonight, Gmail was unavailable as reported by the Google Apps Status Dashboard. Besides the fact that more and more people rely on the number-one webmail interface to handle their e-mails, this problem has impacted other Internet social services like Twitter! When the problem was detected by users, they
This Message Will Self-destroy in 30″!
“Cloud computing”! This is a hot topic in IT security for a while. I won’t explain why security is so importing within the cloud. To have a good overview, I recommend to follow Craig Balding’s blog. For sure, you already have personal data stored on the web. You use webmail
Virtual Money with Real Risks?
The financial group ING announced a partnership with NetLog, the Belgian social network website. On a marketing point of view, this is a good action to attract young potential customers. ING (one of the top-3 bank in Belgium) will catch them on Netlog hoping that, later, they will switch to
DNS, Your Achilles’ Heel?
A few days ago, the site google.co.ma, the Moroccan version of the well-known search engine was reported as defaced (screenshot here). Only the URL ‘google.co.ma’ was defaced, the long version ‘www.google.co.ma’ was still working properly. What happened? In fact, Google was clearly not the target in this case but the
Google As Torrent Search Engine
A few days ago, four members of the Pirate Bay were found guilty by the Swedish court of justice. One of their lines of defense was based on the fact that they did not host files under copyrights but they just provided an index of them. Hmmm… Index? Does it
Where is Linux?
Today I participated in a survey organized by a major Belgian bank. The goal was to improve their web services (which is always a nice initiative). At the middle of the survey, came the following question: Of course, I answered “I don’t know“. How can they restrict the choice to