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At least for the short to medium term. That is the, quite obvious, conclusion drawn in a Newsweek article entitled "Building a Better Password." The article goes inside the CyLab at Carnegie-Mellon University to understand how passwords may...
Today I finally got wind of my first piece of true standard user malware. MS Antispyware 2008 has turned standard user. The version in question installs the binaries in c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\<something>, and makes...
Recently I had a very interesting incident. I wrote an article some time in 2008 and the publisher paid me a little bit of money for it. That means the publisher must send a report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS - the U.S. tax department) reporting...
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released an out-of-band security update in bulletin MS08-067 . Looking at the type of vulnerability and the fact that the issue was already being exploited in the wild at the time, this was a good decision. If you have...
A few years ago I delivered a very popular presentation I called "Anatomy of a Hack." Well, actually, I called it "How to Get Your Network Hacked in 10 Easy Steps" but the marketing department at my previous employer thought that title...
"Buy the original Olympic Torch from Beijing" That was one of the fake headlines in the latest "CNN.com Daily Top 10" malware spam I've been getting lately. This particular spam is a fake newsfeed which redirects you to one of...
What's wrong with this picture? If you answered "why would the IRS use a web server in Korea to ask for information about my tax refund" you are a winner! This is a phishing site preying on people who do not know that all you need to do...
The big security news this week is the six vulnerabilities found in various image uploader ActiveX controls. In case you haven't seen the news , there are exploits available publicly for remote vulnerabilities in five different ActiveX controls. US...
The January issue of TechNet Magazine has an article I wrote about how to hack a system using autoplaying USB flash drives. While it is not possible to stop all attacks from USB tokens, Vista does include some interesting protective measures. However...
Well, sure it is. According to the Firefox web site, which must of course be untainted by marketing claims since it is Mozilla, " Firefox continues to lead the way in online security". OK, marketing hyperbole aside, I'm a data guy. I care...
Sweden has always been a little "cutting edge," if you know what I mean. Little did I know, however, just how cutting edge. This picture was snapped in a toy store in Stockholm last week: I probably stood there stunned for a good two minutes...