People still fall for “uncleverly-written” messages. As I wrote in an earlier entry, users are the weakest link in security. Click this. See.
Skype Warns Users of P-to-P Worm:
There are several versions of the chat messages, which are “cleverly written” to fool users, Arak wrote on the Skype heartbeat blog. The link appears to contain a [...]
Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper’s Paradise:
Tor has a known weakness: The last node through which traffic passes in the network has to decrypt the communication before delivering it to its final destination. Someone operating that node can see the communication passing through this server….
He was surprised to discover that 95 percent of the [...]
Here are a couple articles beating the old OS advocate drum. The first suggests changing to a non-MS operating system is more secure. The second notes OEMs are again selling Linux-based boxes.
Want Security? Blah Blah Blah…:
“It is worth noting that almost all of the malware I find in my day to day work will only [...]
I was going to submit several MyDSL extensions I’d compiled for my personal use but decided against it because I’m not using Linux anymore. I mentioned one — calcurse.uci — in the forums and I submitted it yesterday as I said I would (it’s not yet posted as I write this).
calcurse is a curses-based calendar [...]
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