You know the drill: open browser, new tab, type ‘www.facebook.com’ and in moment you can see who of your online buddies is up to something interesting. This is exactly what I did. Only I did not end up in well known Facebook page, but on something really fishy: This is definitely NOT facebook. How come [...]
Archive for the ‘security’ category
Facebook domain type-in hack
2009/07/24Why it is probably bad idea to have Skype always on
2007/11/25no, not because of the memory it takes or CPU cycles burned (does not really matter when you have 4 GB notebook with Core2Duo). Few days ago, a good friend from old country (well, technically not anymore as he also moved within the EU) made me aware of this presentation “Silver Needle in the Skype“ [...]
Great solution for offsite backup
2007/10/25I have been using it for over half year now and was very happy with it. After I did today hear Steve Gibson mentioning (and recommending) it on Security Now!, I want to share my experience and add my vote of confidence. The solution is Amazon S3 service (Simple Storage Service), fantastically affordable system to [...]
The price of anonymity
2007/09/17The combination of software allowing anonymous access to the Net, not too competent police officers and laws not quite 21st century ready can be a very dangerous combination. According this story, the operator of the Tor node was arrested by German police … I am quite curious how be would situation like this handled in [...]
Limits of virtualization
2007/07/16It’s been over 10 months since we have started to seriously use virtualization and run Windows inside virtual machine to ease installation and configuration pain. It starting first as convenient measure of isolation two different development environments (.NET 1.1 based and .NET 2.0 based) and avoid “crosspolination” in the data analytics project. At that time, [...]
Walking season … and SPAM
2007/03/31Today I have started the walking season 2007. I did some gentle preparation during the week – few short, 4-5 km strolls around the neighbourhood, but it was today when I really started. It was beautiful day in Ottawa – sunny, temperature around 8-10, so I took off and did 12 km loop through Westboro, [...]
Security of the browsers
2007/03/06I have just finished listening to the back-episodes of Security Now! # 38, where Steve Gibson describes his approach to securely browsing Web without antivirus and with Internet Explorer. The idea in a nutshell is – use properly locked down IE zones. Steve has modified the security settings of the default (Internet zone) to maximum: [...]
Evergreen Security Now!
2007/01/25I have started to listen the Security Now! podcasts from the very beginning – sometimes in summer 2005. Unlike some news-and-rumours podcasts that sound kind of weird if you listen them month later, this one did not loose a bit of it’s freshness. Even listening the story of Sony Rootkit discovery again was very entertaining. [...]
How to recover lost Win XP password
2007/01/16If it ever happens to you that you need to restart old computer which you have not logged on for 2-3 months and you find out you have no clue what the password could be, do not panick. Exactly this happened to me yesterday. Fortunately I have remembered reading something on lifehacker few days ago [...]
The amazing free System Information utility for Windows
2007/01/13I found today something that (after long time) make me to say Wow! – and it had nothing to do with Apple or OS-X. Simple small system management utility for Windows modestly named System info, written by fellow Canadian Gabriel Topala (originally from Romania, but living in Toronto, as I found out from his resume [...]
