There’s been a lot of talk about the DNS vulnerability (CVE-2008-1447) discovered by Dan Kaminsky. The exploit, as detailed by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Database, allows remote attackers to spoof DNS traffic enabling the poisoning of DNS caches in order to send systems to malicious websites. This greatly increases the risk of phishing attacks [...]
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DNS attack in the wild
31Jul08Internet Explorer 7 Weirdness
01Apr08I made the mistake of trying to move my Temporary Internet Files folder from my system disk to a dedicated data disk using the “Move Folder…” button. This can be found on the window that appears after pressing “Delete…” on the “General” tab of the Internet Properties for Internet Explorer 7 on Vista SP1.
When you press [...]
Google users don’t feel lucky
04Oct07I’ve often wondered if anyone made use of the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on the Google website, as I have never seen the point of it. In an interview on the Washington Post website with Marissa Mayer, vice president for search products and user experience for Google, she states that fewer than 1% of users [...]
ComputerWeekly reports some statitiscs from the aniti-virus vendor Sophos that web pages on ligitimate sites are being infected by malware at the rate of almost 30,000 a day. Sophos research shows the top ten web-based malware as:
Mal/Iframe 64.0%
Mal/ObfJS 10.1%
Troj/Psyme 3.8%
Troj/Fujif 3.1%
Troj/Decdec 2.7%
VBS/Redlof 2.5%
Mal/Packer 1.1%
Troj/Ifradv 1.0%
VBS/Haptime 1.0%
Mal/Zlob 0.9%
Others 9.8%
Guy Kawasaki has posted an interesting article on his blog detailing the creation of his Web 2.0 venture called Truemors, which cost the grand total of $12,107.09 in setup costs. What’s intriguing is how the legal fees were actually greater than the software development expenses. It proves that it has never been easier to setup [...]
