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Wonky security posts
I was reading two security blog posts recently from security vendors which seemed a little “off”: The first one was from Avira talking about a great new feature: as I understand it, in the new version of their product if an application is permitted by the Application rules of the firewall, the port rules are…
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Start offering solutions
Some time ago I’ve read two blogposts from security vendors: The Oldest Un-Patched Microsoft Vulnerability from the ESET blog (makers of NOD32) and Consumers deserve less intrusive products from the McAfee Security Insights blog. Both of them were complaining: On the ESET blog Randy Abrams was complaining that autorun is a vulnerability. I would ask…
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Why Directi should be kicked
It is known in “security folklore” that a domain registered at Directi usually spells bad news. However I know have some stats to show it. How these stats were generated: The malicious domains were taken from DNS-BH The benign domains were taken from Alexa The registrar for each domain was extracted Of course, this is…
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SDHC – Shared Dictionary Compression
I saw the following article on the GOS blog: Google Search Pages Load Faster if You Use Google Toolbar. It turns out that Google added an experimental feature in the Google web servers and the Google toolbar to reduce the network traffic by supplying a dictionary of frequently used page elements (BTW, I find the…
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Good security news
Being Friday the 13th one can really use some positive news: on rootkit.com we have an article about Implementing SMM PS/2 Keyboard sniffer. How is this good news you ask me? Towards the end of the paper we have the following text (emphasis added): The limitations of hacking through SMM are obvious. It is almost…