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Yearly Archives: 2009
Conficker – Check to See If You Are Infected
To simply check if you are infected, you can use Conficker Eye Chart developed by Conficker Working Group. Continue reading
Posted in Malicious Software, Threats, Vulnerabilities, Attacks
Tagged Conficker, Conficker Working Group, Conflicker, Downandup, Downup, Eye Chart, Kido, Worm
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To Whom To Believe: Google Or McAfee?
I use McAfee suite on one of my computers. It has McAfee Site Advisor which should help with knowing which Web sites are safe and which are risky or dangerous. Today (April 2, 2009) I was surprised that McAfee warned … Continue reading
The Sky Has Fallen!?
Not many people seem to have noticed that Invisiblethings team has reported the 3rd attack against SMM (Attacking SMM Memory via Intel® CPU Cache Poisoning) which they have found in the last 10 months. Joanna Rutkowska, founder and CEO of … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events, Hardware Security, Threats, Vulnerabilities, Attacks
Tagged intel, invisiblethings, smm
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What Adware Can Do?
Read this interview and you probably will be scared. It is interview with Matt Knox. He talks about his early days designing and writing adware for Direct Revenue. Continue reading
Posted in Internet Security, Malicious Software, Threats, Vulnerabilities, Attacks
Tagged adware
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Bruce Schneier in Reason Magazine
Interesting interview: Safe, But Also Sorry: Security expert Bruce Schneier talks about privacy and property in the information state – Reason Magazine. Citation: Reason: In Schneier on Security, you emphasize that technology isn’t the only (or even the most important … Continue reading
Tricked by Wrong PDFCreator Publisher
You probably need to print your files to PDF format sometimes. You can use Adobe Acrobat for this purpose, but it costs some significant amount of money. If your requirements are not to strong, you can use free open source version named PDFCreator.
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. Real PDFCreator Web site is: http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator. I have been using it for quite some time and it is really good tool. Easy to use and pretty fast, it satisfies most of my needs regarding creating PDF files i.e. printing to PDF from various programs which I use.
But there are some impostors on the Internet. So, be careful, very careful when downloading open source software, as many impostors use well known names and its variations to trick people and then to take many.
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Connected to Virus Writers?
New question is related to long lasting rumors that some security software companies are connected to virus writers and use them as helpers to increase revenues. Continue reading
Microsoft’s Free Book
Microsoft Press is celebrating 25 years and gives free book “Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista” by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. You can download book in PDF format here. They say: For 25 years, Microsoft Press books have focused … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Magazines and Journals
Tagged free book, Microsoft, secure code, Windows Vista
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