Weekend Reading
IPv6 firewalling knows no middle ground
If you have a router or home gateway that supports IPv6, make sure that it, too, filters IPv6. A stateful filter that allows outgoing connections and return traffic, but not incoming connections is closest to the IPv4 NAT filtering functionality.
Take a look HERE.
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Masters of Their Domain
Online banking fraud is rampant because it’s easy.
Here’s a fix that will mean money in the bank.
Take a look HERE.
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Hotmail redesign: Too hot to handle?
Microsoft had been tinkering with Windows Live Mail for months, but testers still weren't happy. The program was too slow to load, too different and, well, just not like the old Hotmail it was intended to replace. It was a painful realization for the more than 100 managers and developers on the project.
Take a look HERE.
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Multiplying Hacks
No, I’m not talking about typing 53704 into your calculator and turning it upside down! I’m referring to the increasing popularity of inserting links to exploits into legitimate HTML pages in an attempt to infect users who visit the affected page, multiplying the effectiveness of the original infection. I’ll outline below the steps used in one such attack that we recently received in our lab.
Take a look HERE.
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High-tech devices can make anyone a spy
Tucked away on a side street in Tel Aviv, the unassuming Golan Spy Shop is not something a pedestrian would just chance upon — and owner Moti Golan likes it that way. As a result, 85 percent of his customers are what Golan calls the “professional market” — soldiers, police officers, private investigators and civilian security officers. The rest are businessmen, who, for whatever reason, feel the need to own a microphone disguised as a shirt button or a radio frequency transmitter (i.e., a bug) hidden inside a clock.
Take a look HERE.
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The May ‘State of Spam’ Report Highlights Some New Twists!
The May ‘State of Spam’ report [PDF] is now online. This month’s report highlights several interesting spam trends seen by Symantec, including the reduction in image spam, image uploading hosting solutions used in stock spam, company character assassination spam, and a new twist on the 419 spam technique.
Take a look HERE.
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OpenPGP
A guide on setting up and using OpenPGP.
Based on Mozilla Thunderbird, but also applicable for other email clients.
Take a look HERE.
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The digital home: Still a handyman's special?
The digital-home entertainment puzzle is still missing some pieces. But the entertainment center of most homes, the television, is for the majority of people disconnected from the computer, where they store their digital content. The question is: when will the PC and the TV easily interact, beyond what a handful of consumer products like the Slingbox and Apple TV allow gadget buffs to accomplish?
Take a look HERE.
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Apple iPod and Windows Vista-based problem
Consider the following scenario. You have an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer through a USB connection. Then, you disconnect the iPod from the computer. In this scenario, the data on the iPod may become corrupted.
Take a look HERE.
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Flash memory hard drives
For the last six to 12 months, there's been a big push across the computing industry to embrace flash memory as a means to augment existing hard drive technology.
Your hard disk already has a teeny bit of DRAM in it, to speed up its various activities - so why not a wee spot of flash as well, to improve reliability, startup speed at power-on, access times, and the chances of data survival in the event of power-loss?
Take a look HERE.
If you have a router or home gateway that supports IPv6, make sure that it, too, filters IPv6. A stateful filter that allows outgoing connections and return traffic, but not incoming connections is closest to the IPv4 NAT filtering functionality.
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
Masters of Their Domain
Online banking fraud is rampant because it’s easy.
Here’s a fix that will mean money in the bank.
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
Hotmail redesign: Too hot to handle?
Microsoft had been tinkering with Windows Live Mail for months, but testers still weren't happy. The program was too slow to load, too different and, well, just not like the old Hotmail it was intended to replace. It was a painful realization for the more than 100 managers and developers on the project.
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
Multiplying Hacks
No, I’m not talking about typing 53704 into your calculator and turning it upside down! I’m referring to the increasing popularity of inserting links to exploits into legitimate HTML pages in an attempt to infect users who visit the affected page, multiplying the effectiveness of the original infection. I’ll outline below the steps used in one such attack that we recently received in our lab.
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
High-tech devices can make anyone a spy
Tucked away on a side street in Tel Aviv, the unassuming Golan Spy Shop is not something a pedestrian would just chance upon — and owner Moti Golan likes it that way. As a result, 85 percent of his customers are what Golan calls the “professional market” — soldiers, police officers, private investigators and civilian security officers. The rest are businessmen, who, for whatever reason, feel the need to own a microphone disguised as a shirt button or a radio frequency transmitter (i.e., a bug) hidden inside a clock.
Take a look HERE.
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The May ‘State of Spam’ Report Highlights Some New Twists!
The May ‘State of Spam’ report [PDF] is now online. This month’s report highlights several interesting spam trends seen by Symantec, including the reduction in image spam, image uploading hosting solutions used in stock spam, company character assassination spam, and a new twist on the 419 spam technique.
Take a look HERE.
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OpenPGP
A guide on setting up and using OpenPGP.
Based on Mozilla Thunderbird, but also applicable for other email clients.
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
The digital home: Still a handyman's special?
The digital-home entertainment puzzle is still missing some pieces. But the entertainment center of most homes, the television, is for the majority of people disconnected from the computer, where they store their digital content. The question is: when will the PC and the TV easily interact, beyond what a handful of consumer products like the Slingbox and Apple TV allow gadget buffs to accomplish?
Take a look HERE.
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Apple iPod and Windows Vista-based problem
Consider the following scenario. You have an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer through a USB connection. Then, you disconnect the iPod from the computer. In this scenario, the data on the iPod may become corrupted.
Take a look HERE.
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Flash memory hard drives
For the last six to 12 months, there's been a big push across the computing industry to embrace flash memory as a means to augment existing hard drive technology.
Your hard disk already has a teeny bit of DRAM in it, to speed up its various activities - so why not a wee spot of flash as well, to improve reliability, startup speed at power-on, access times, and the chances of data survival in the event of power-loss?
Take a look HERE.
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