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The first rule of computer security is
You don’t talk about computer security. No, that’s not it, but it sure seems like many people adopt that attitude. Getting back to the subject, I want to talk about the first of the 10 Immutable Laws of Security: If a bad guy can run (persuade you to run) his program on your computer, it’s…
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F*** you Microsoft!
For deciding that your precious Windows Update is so important you have to restart my computer in the middle of the day, costing me two hours of work!
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Funny quote of the day
… if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program. From an older version of the Linux Kernel Coding Style. The newer version contains a less funny (offensive?) wording…
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Google Reader, Javascript and Flash
I had the idea some time ago to highlight the source code I post via Javascript. I gravitated towards this solution because I don’t have source level control of Blogger (or do I? ;-)). My thought process was the following: include one .js in each post, which will check if the customization was already done…
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Malware challenge results are out
The contest results are out. I scored way below my expectation and – after reading a few submissions from the top half of the list – I can’t really tell what the reason for it is :-(. (Not that it matters all that much – given that I wasn’t eligible for prizes anyway – it’s…
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Is Vista really safer?
I keep reading articles like this: Security – One of The Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (other articles from this category are for example one which breaks down the MS Malicious Software Removal Tool statistics by versions of Windows to conclude the same thing). The problem with these? They fail to account for…
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Free AV from Microsoft
It seems like Microsoft is dropping their OneCare product line and repackaging it as “Morro”, a free consumer AV product. I read the news on Graham Cluley’s blog. What does this mean? This will of course eat from the pie of other vendors offering free products (AVG, Avira and Avast!). It will also get more…
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Opinions about whitelisting
I was reading the piece entitled White Listing – The End of Antivirus??? by the “Director of Technical Education”. Now it would be fairly easy to do ad-hominem attack against him, I will stick to the technical details of the post: First, it gives the argument that one of the approaches whitelisting companies use is…
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Firefox 2 end-of-life
Via Slashdot came the news that version 1.8 of the Gecko engine used to render HTML in Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2, etc. was being end of lifed. Now I have still a few computers which I’m responsible for that have FF2 on them, just because that’s what the users were accustomed to. So I searched…
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Ethical hacker challenge solution
Given that the deadline passed, I’ll publish my solution to the Scooby Doo Ethical hacker challenge. In related news (via SANS): the November challenge from packetlife. The deadline is the 20th of November, so hurry up. Can you figure out who killed Dr. Wilson, and why? I would say it was Dr. Miller. In the…