December 2011
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App-phone Vulnerabilities Continue to Surface as...
North America is quickly catching up to Asia and Europe in terms of app-phone market share. As a result we are quickly encountering the same problems these countries have experiences with SMS Trojans for several years now. As app-phones have been designed for easy of development, with security being almost an afterthought, malware writers have found this an obvious evolution of their...
September 2011
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What is MD5 and Why Should You Care That It's...
I came across an interesting article today discussing a talk with one of Kapersky Lab’s analysts, Evgeny Aseev. The discussion centers around the use of MD5 hashes, how they are no longer enough, and involves a few dropped comments about the H B Gary attack by Anonymous this year. This quickly becomes a bit technical so here’s a quick run-down of MD5.
What is MD5?
MD5 is a cryptographic function...
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DigiNotar Roundups
Early this week, I did a quick and dirty write-up trying to do a high level explanation of what is going on with DigiNotar and why it’s important. Since then there have been a lot of pieces that had dropped that are directly or indirectly related to the incident.
In Context
The ComodoGate hacker has ‘come forward’ claiming responsibility for the DigiNotar crack as well as claimed successful...
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DigiNotar Certificate Authority Comprimise - Some...
During the past week, the compromise of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar has been keeping the security community watching the news. SSL certificates allow encryption of web-traffic between users and servers, and the certificate authorities’ job is to give people some reasonable confidence that the server a user is talking to is who they claim to be. As a result of this attack, several...
June 2011
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August 2008
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Wrist Communicator
That person on the bus may not be late for his appointment after all. SMS Technology Australia has started production on its M500 line of GSM watches. The M500 is a classy looking square faced watch that runs on quad mode GSM technology. It features a 1.5 inch color touch screen, 128 MB of memory for contacts and files, and full sms support. While it does play MP3/AAC and MP4 video, my strong...
September 2007
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Apple bleeding you dry.
This morning’s “USA Today” (Ugh I know … its what the hotel left on the doorstep) is running a story on the front page about blood banks trying new techniques to get donors in the door. One of the options some blood banks are thinking of raffling off iPods. The article doesn’t go on to say whether Apple will be donating these ipods, or if they come through the...
August 2007
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Christopher Dawson discusses his Anti-Mac bias!
Christoper Dawson, one of ZDnet’s educational bloggers, wrote last night about his Anti-Mac bias. Much like Mr. Dawson, I’ve faced the stigma of being “the wrong expert” when my friends ask me about what Laptop or desktop they should consider buying, and I rarely have Mac’s on the list.
Dawson points out that while Mac’s are great at what they do,...