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Crackers are always on the lookout for new chances to access your accounts, either if you’re a private / regular internet user, or a multinational corporation like Sony who recently fell victim to several attacks affecting their flagship console, the PS3, and their Playstation Network. It began when their PS3 private keys, that sign all…
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I wrote a post a few months ago explaining briefly how to integrate a Squid proxy with a Microsoft Windows Active Directory. While with Windows XP and Vista the single sign on works flawlessly, with Windows 7 it needs a little tweak. You’ll need to change your a GPO on your AD: Computer configuration >…
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Dear Apple, please explain why is my computer (added to not be mistaken with the router’s IP) LAN IP address showing on the email headers of the mails I send with Mail.app. Thanks! Bellow, in red, my computer’s private LAN IP Address. In green my Router’s Public/WAN IP address which is “normal” to be included…
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# Visit type: Spider – Google AdSense # IP: 66.249.71.107 # Hostname: crawl-66-249-71-107.googlebot.com # Url Requested: /blog/category/computer-stuff/security /?;DECLARE%20@S%20CHAR(4000);SET%20@S=CAST(0x4445434C4152 45204054207661726368617228323535292C404320766172636861722834 30303029204445434C415245205461626C655F437572736F722043555253 4F5220464F522073656C65637420612E6E616D652C622E # User Agent: Mediapartners-Google Why is the GoogleBot requesting a URL from my blog with what looks like an SQL Injection attack?
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Little Snitch is a Mac OS X app that runs in the background and hooks with the kernel. As the name indicates, Little Snitch warns you when an application tries to make a network connection, asking you to decide if you allow, deny or add a permanent rule for that specific app in future connections.…
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Looks like WordPress 2.1.1 has a security exploit that allows remote PHP execution. Upgrade to version 2.1.2 is recommended. [tags]Wordpress, Blog, Security, Exploit[/tags]
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I’m getting a few hits from someone with this user agent: JACK-O`-LANTERN/1.1 I’ve googled it and came and found nothing… Does anyone know who’s using this? [tags]JACK-O`-LANTERN, User Agent, Browser, Search Engine, Crawlers[/tags]
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This is a P.F.P.P. – Post For Portuguese People, please excuse 😉 Entre ontem e hoje a maioria dos portugueses deve ter recebido nas suas caixas de e-mail mais uma nova tentativa de Phishing, desta vez o alvo foram os clientes da Caixa Geral de Depósitos. Apesar de muito mal escrito, nota-se que é um…
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The Shortwave And The Calling [tags]Numbers Stations, Spys, Ciphers, The Conet Project[/tags]
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My last post was a little challenge: a ciphered message with an url inside. All you had to do was to convert the binary code, reverse the text and decode the string with the ROT-13 cipher. You would then get http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/16/cryptanalysis-of-phone-numbers-stations/ (as Bruno did very well). Besides the little challenge, the point of that post…