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Review: Viruses Revealed
This book should be a must read for anyone thinking about malware and anti-malware (including – or especially – all the people in the media!). It is a hype-free, no-nonsense book, which doesn’t shy away from writing the truth. I found out about this book from the (ISC)2 blog, where Robert Slade (one of the…
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IFERROR for Excel 2003 Posted: 15 Jul 2009 06:00 AM PDT A new function in Excel 2007 – IFERROR. While a useful improvement, it is incompatible with older versions (including 2003). Adding this macro fixes it. Alternatively you could rewrite from =IFERROR(A,B) to =IF(ISERROR(A),B,A) It seems that in OpenOffice we can't use macros in formulas:…
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Update to OVScan
I finally had a little free time to work on the OVscan script. Here are the updates: updated to the latest changes in VirusTotal updated to the latest changes in Jotti added a new scanner site (NoVirusThanks). Unfortunately they currently seem to be down for maintenance disable Virscan.Org, since they are down since a couple…
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43.gs: massive Google SERPs poisoning Posted: 14 Jul 2009 11:59 AM PDT The blogpost links to three free resources to track website popularity: http://www.quantcast.com/43.gs http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/43.gs http://siteanalytics.compete.com/43.gs/ OECD Factbook eXplorer for analysing country statistics Posted: 14 Jul 2009 05:39 AM PDT Very cool visualization of the (possible) relations between different factors (as employment rate and population…
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Careful with that UGC, PCWorld!
I was reading PC World article when I saw the “active” forum topics: My thoughts were: Their forum must be really low volume if these spammings managed to get to the top UGC (User Generated Content) can easily put your website in a “bad light”, so you should be careful when using it. Some ideas…
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The solution for the Defcon CTF b300 in cartoon form Posted: 13 Jul 2009 12:02 PM PDT Very interesting manga-style description of solving a CTF / crackme / RE challenge. The spacing of ideas is also very important when communicating, so this might just be the right form for some people. Besides, it has many…
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Advertising (double and a half) fail
I get the following email in my inbox: Knowing that they have some interesting people (and webcasts), I bite. So where should I click? On the subscribe button of course! This takes me (trough a redirector – which fortunately wasn’t blocked by my host file) to this website. Fail no. 1: there is no way…
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The fox in the henhouse?
Some time back I ranted about ParetoLogic which was used to be known as the makers of a rogue security product (XoftSpy). Today I can rant once again about them: They’ve published a blogpost insinuating that Firefox 3.5 has a remote code execution vulnerability. I’ve tried to inquire if they notified Mozilla about the issue,…
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Tout va bien (1972) Posted: 12 Jul 2009 02:30 AM PDT You can find movie references in the weirdest places: I found this one in a 30+ year old book that I've read (Szasz Janos: Amerikabol Jottem). Too HIP to be Clomp-y Posted: 11 Jul 2009 04:42 AM PDT This is nice: how to get…
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Tried to review RocketPost…
A reader of mine asked about my opinions about RocketPost, so I thought I’ll give it a try. Their interface seemed alright and there were some interesting features showcased in the tour. An other thing I’ve liked is that they offer a free version with no restrictions, other than the number of blogs limited to…