If there was only one annoying operation for me, it will be to search contact information about IP addresses! Often, network administrators and security guys have to found out to who is assigned a given IP address (example: when analysis logs or doing forensics searches). Useful information linked to IP
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Facebook Cybersquatting Soon?
Will Facebook once again make a buzz? Saturday, June 13th starting at 06:01am, Facebook users will be able to choose a username to customize their profile URL. Something like http://www.facebook.com/username/. After DNS cybersquatting, will we see a new effect of Facebook cybersquatting? There is already a FAQ available about this
Follow Several Security Threat Levels via Twitter
Twitter, the micro blogging platform, attracts a larger audience days after days. According to recent studies, lot of accounts stay un-updated for long periods of time. On the other side, there are more and more huge communities of active users who tweet on specific topics: The IT security is represented
Virtual Banking, Real Risks?
Announced on BBC News, Mindark, the developers of Entropia, get their license to perform on-line banking! Entropia is an online game defined as “The first virtual universe with a real cash economy”. The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority accepted and issued a license to Mindark. It allows players to convert their
Introduction to SEAT
SEAT – Search Engine Assessment Tool – is a tool dedicated to security professionals and/or pentesters . Using popular search engines, it search for interesting information stored in their caches. It also uses other types of public resources (see later). Popular search engines like Google or Yahoo! (non-exhaustive list) use
Oups! Gmail Undo Function
Gmail Labs are back with a new feature for Gmail… A few months ago, they introduced a feature to help users to not send e-mails at the wrong moment (late night, after a party, …) Now, there are back with a new protection: An undo function! It’s very simple: once
Phone Call Strong Authentication
OpenID is a free service which offers strong authentication to websites (already covered by a previous post). Strong authentication is based on a two factors authentication: something you know, something you have or something you are (more details here). Trustbearer offered strong authentication via, as example, the Belgian eID Card.