Monthly Archives: May 2007

Forthcoming Article at ComSIS Journal: Book Preview

Book preview of our book “Security of Computer Systems and Networks” is scheduled to appear at ComSIS Journal Volume 4, Number 1, June 2007 (here).

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Big Brother: Point / Counterpoint

Here is Bruce Schneier’s post on his blog and here is Marcus Ranum’s view. Bruce says: The fear isn’t an Orwellian government deliberately creating the ultimate totalitarian state, although with the U.S.’s programs of phone-record surveillance, illegal wiretapping, massive data … Continue reading

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GTECH to Acquire Sports-Betting Solutions Provider Finsoft Limited

News: GTECH to Acquire Sports-Betting Solutions Provider Finsoft Limited. Why is this on my security blog? Because I am CEO of BEG Finsoft, Belgrade branch of Finsoft Limited (see here). See also press release on GTECH Web site (here).

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Chasing Vulnerabilities for Fun and Profit

After testing of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that my students have done on my WordPress based blog (see here), I tried to see others’ experiences related to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection problems and came across an interesting post. Number of high-severity … Continue reading

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Howto Install a Content Filtering and Virus Checking Proxy

Commercial filters are often expensive, especially when used on a large number of computers, as would be the case in a school computer lab or in small or medium companies with computer networks. In contrast, open source filters are generally … Continue reading

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Building Trust in Downloads

This is an interesting project that we can welcome: The Truste group’s goal of creating an online ecosystem through which software makers are held accountable for the functions of their programs and end users are given the power to keep … Continue reading

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Scammed out of your domain?

Interesting: Scammed out of your domain? – Download Squad. Quote: HOW TO LOSE YOUR DOMAIN Business owners lose domains when: they forget who registered the domain name the person who registered it changes an email address (and can’t access the old … Continue reading

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The Myth of the Superuser: Fear, Risk, and Harm Online

Very interesting law journal paper: SSRN-The Myth of the Superuser: Fear, Risk, and Harm Online by Paul Ohm.

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Mikro knjiga: Sigurnost računarskih sistema i mreža

Book released from press today: Sigurnost računarskih sistema i mreža.

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Attacks on my Blog

During last weekend this blog experienced number of attacks. I suspect [or know :)] that majority of these attacks have been performed by my students who I teach Computer Networks Security lectures. It is possible that some other people tried … Continue reading

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