Category Archives: Internet Security

Internet Explorer 7 navcancl.htm Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Here is test to see an example of how this vulnerability can be exploited, and also to determine whether or not your browser is vulnerable: Internet Explorer 7 navcancl.htm Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability – Secunia. If you are vulnerable, text similar to this will … Continue reading

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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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Privacy of Instant Messenger Conversations

People have been using many various instant messengers and this trend is going to continue and number of users to be increased in next years. It is used for chats, voice communications, file sending and even some additional services such … Continue reading

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Security and Other Risks Associated With Google Adsense Program

Google AdSense program offers possibility for Website owners, who have high visibility and number of visitors, to earn money based on clicks on Google Ads. More details about Adsense here. However, on occasions it seems to me that this widely … Continue reading

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New Google Desktop Flaw Discovered

Can we trust to desktop search engines such as Google, Microsoft and similar. I’m afraid but I still don’t want to use it. I tried it and know that they help a lot to organize and search data. Also they … Continue reading

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Finsoft PCI-C Device

In previous post I wrote about Finsoft PCI-C appliance for compliance with payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS). Finsoft made available White Paper about this concept and appliance on company’s web site. It gives more details about: applying … Continue reading

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Finsoft PCI-C Appliance for Compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard is a world-wide benchmark mandated by the card schemes (VISA, Mastercard, Amex, Diners, JCB) for the protection of cardholder identity and transaction information. It requires users of card data to: Build and … Continue reading

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