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USA Today writes an article about FF 3.0 - hilarity ensues . . .
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over 5 years ago
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-06-17-mozilla-window-snyder_N.htm Boy why bother with facts when it's so easy to make stuff up and to throw out randomly generated numbers like these: " Organized cybercrime gangs are more...
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SQL injection is teh suck . . .
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over 5 years ago
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So do something about it: http://blogs.technet.com/swi/archive/2008/06/24/new-tools-to-block-and-eradicate-sql-injection.aspx We give you 3 different ways to combat SQL injection on our platform above including an update to one of my all time favorite...
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More FireFox 3.0 entertainment (Fail Open Goat Award)
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over 5 years ago
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It's nice to see that the security researchers are taking notice of FireFox's increased share of the market and responding appropriately: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1288 This is interesting on many levels . . . here we have a free, open source...
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iPhone 3G
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Ugh . . . stupid Apple . . . releasing a freaking $199 iPhone that has both 3G and GPS which finally brings it to feature parity with my Moto Q9 . . . but the real coupe de grace is the fact that it will also natively support Exchange Direct Push thereby...
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Security 'silly season' has officially begun . . .
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over 5 years ago
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In Formula 1, silly season usually begins near the middle to end of the F1 calendar (although it seems to start earlier each year) as many drivers and teams start the intricate backroom negotiations of who will drive what next season or even sometimes...
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Today's Fail Open Goat Award goes to - Microsoft
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over 5 years ago
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Sometimes . . . we fail (shocking - I know, but bare with me please). :) So a seceurity researcher who goes by the name Liu Die Yu seems to have unraveled the mystery of the recent Apple Safari carpet bomb fail that we released an advisory on and how...
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Adobe PDF exploit generator and targeted attack info
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over 5 years ago
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This has to be one of the funniest / saddest things I've read all year . . . http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001450.html Oh and make sure you read the previous post as well - very insightful: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives...
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The Great Flood (of building 27)
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over 5 years ago
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So last night a pipe carrying water in building 27 in the ceiling over the first floor burst causing water to pour out of the ceiling and onto the floor. This is interesting to me because building 27 is the building where most of the MSRC and SWI folks...
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Adobe, Attack Surface, The way the world ends (etc.)
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over 5 years ago
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Okay - so last month I discovered that Adobe PDFs can contain Java freaking script in them AND that Acrobat has that feature turned ON by default (Edit menu -> Preferrences -> Enable Acrobat Java freaking Script). How could I NOT have known about...
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Windows SteadyState - Or "How to surf the web without fear using Windows XP"
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over 5 years ago
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So I was chatting with a Microsoft friend of mine today. He's a Firephox fanboi. He's always trying to convert me. He was talking to me about FF 3.0's pending release and talking about how amazingly fast it is on his XP SP3 rig. So I started admonishing...
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Our comically un-creative product naming continues . . .
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over 5 years ago
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"Windows Embedded NavReady 2009"!?! Really people? I think we totally missed an opportunity to add a few more words to describe this fascinating new OS variant thereby ensuring that it will in no way easily fit on any product stickers and will have to...
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Windows Desktop Search: Now with less suck!
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over 5 years ago
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Anyone with any amount of technical clue who has used Vista has invariably figured out that the 'Windows Search" (wsearch) service is responsible for a lot of the CPU and disk suckage that seems to start at random times from out of nowhere and last for...
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A new way to get your favorite tools
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over 5 years ago
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On XP or Vista from any network with HTTP outbound access go to start->run and paste this in: \\live.sysinternals.com\tools After a few seconds of negotiation the WebDAV redirector should kick in and let you browse the site and download the latest...
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MMPC team blog / FF 3.0 download record?
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The Microsoft Malware Protection Center team (i.e. the AV folks) have a new blog URL: http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/ Hopefully these folks will be blogging more about new and exciting malware like they've done just recently. This month - they talk...
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Freeware un-delete software pwns fancy schmancy 1024 bit encrypting malware?
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Seems the miscreants behind the GPCode.ak (<-- picture of message user sees, poor English wording and all) malware finally picked up a copy of 'Applied Cryptography' or the ' Handbook of Applied Cryptography ' and coded up a version of their malware...
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Today's FOGA goes to Google for (implicitly) admitting they have a problem (via stopbadware.org)
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over 5 years ago
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Man - not sure why this didn't grab the media's attention until today: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147503/group_says_google_a_top_source_of_badware.html March was apparently a bad month for the Google properties: http://blogs.stopbadware...
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Dino secretly wants Apple to release 64bit Vista
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over 5 years ago
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Interesting article from Dino: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1325 Vista x64 has like . . . 4.5 out of 5 of things he wants. Love the comment in there about making the heap non-executable. :)
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Microsoft Blogs and Web Resources about Security
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over 5 years ago
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This guy has spent an insane amount of time collecting and organizing useful security links . . . but he doesn't just throw them in a blog in random order - he's got a graphical legend and mad organizational skillz. Although I must question some of...
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ISV best practices, Corrupted Heap Termination, the pursuit of (security) happiness . . .
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MikeHow just wrote a brief write-up of some of the things our new heap manager on Vista is capable of detecting at runtime over at the SDL blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2008/06/06/corrupted-heap-termination-redux.aspx As with the Low Fragmentation...
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IE vs. Firephox? Don't count out Opera . . .
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over 5 years ago
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Now with Haute Secure technology: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2218502/opera-sings-praises-security http://hautesecure.com/index.aspx
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Client side cross domain security whitepaper
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over 5 years ago
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Boy there's a mouth full . . . I think my head will hurt after reading this - but I will read it nonetheless: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/xdsecuritywp/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1157
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Static analysis paper
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over 5 years ago
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My friend Chris wrote an interesting paper on inferring things from static analysis based on the calling of known functions to re-construct program flow and even find bugs: http://chris.rohlf.googlepages.com/Static_DS_REC.pdf Yeah he's an Ubuntu /...
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Security Bonuses for Vista programmers
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over 5 years ago
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Larry Seltzer is IMHO one of the few technology journalists who has actually written code - and thus he is more likely to actually understand that which he chooses to write about than the average technology journalist that is trying to cover the exciting...
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Mama always had a way of explainin' things so I could understand . . .
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I give you "Pointer fun with Binky" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pmWojisM_E
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