Category: Protect
Why Vista is like your mum
A couple of years ago a deeply flawed operating system checked into rehab for a do-over. Windows XP, having suffered at the hands of vulnerability researchers for too long -- exploited and abused, memory muddled and kernel corrupted -- got service packed… more »
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You WILL comply
Some of you may have seen my story in yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers, Compliance overload leads to complacency.
In the story, local security consultant Neal Wise recalls a client asking him to cripple the reporting features on on… more »
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PR shame file: Lame lame lame lame lame
Check out this press release I got yesterday from a company that makes patch agent software. You know the stuff, endpoint agents that handle updating all manner of applications on a box. Name obfuscated to ACME to protect the guilty:
Just in time for… more »
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Rare skills rox0r
If you read yesterday's IT section in the Sydney Morning Herald or The Age newspapers, you would have seen the following two yarns.
This one:
Cybercrime leads to a sense of security
Patrick Gray
February 6, 2007
Now the Government has cut off… more »
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Domain names, kiddie-porn and Internet governance
It's old news, but domain name registrar GoDaddy hit the headlines last week when it temporarily disabled the Seclists.org domain name. Some brightspark had posted some MySpace user account details, including passwords, to the Seclists.org hosted Full Di… more »
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Patrick Gray is an IT security expert, so we can't show you his face for your own protection. Each week he delves into technology's dark underbelly to see what lurks in the shadows.
