Picking a Strong Password
- Apr
- 26
Not sure of the origin of this but it is a great explanation of what makes a great password and why.
read moreNBC site redirecting to Exploit kit
- Feb
- 24
We became aware that the NBC[.]com website is redirecting to malicious websites that contains exploit kit. At this point it seems like most of the pages contains an iframe that is redirecting to the first stage of the RedKit exploit kit. Some twitter users are already poiting out some of these bad pages. Some of […]
read moreAaron Swartz suicide sparks Anonymous to hack US Government Sites
- Jan
- 27
Hackers working under the name of the Anonymous hacktivist collective hit a U.S. government website on Saturday, replacing its home page with a 1,340 word text detailing its frustrations with the way the American legal system works and a threat to release “secrets” gathered from U.S. government websites. The website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, […]
read moreThe Real Hunt for Red October
- Jan
- 21
A Russian security company, Kaspersky Labs, detected and identified a new spyware dubbed, ‘Rocra’ meaning ‘Red October’. The Red October (Rocra) campaign, was designed to steal—including encrypted files and from mobile devices—and has successfully infiltrated government, diplomatic and scientific agencies. Rocra is a new kind of virus, that goes undetected for long periods of time […]
read moreLinus Torvalds: Windows 8 Secure Boot Doesn’t Destroy Linux
- Jun
- 12
Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft’s new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows 8. … When Microsoft first unveiled its unified extensible firmware interface, or UEFI, many complained that it would keep Linux off of machines that originally […]
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