May 5, 2009
The other day I noticed some peculiar behavior with Yahoo Instant Messenger. For some reason the client would fail to connect randomly, some mornings it would connect without a problem other days it would fail and fail only to eventually get connected. Further investigation revealed that if I went to command prompt and typed:
ipconfig /flushdns
This [...]
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October 10, 2008
There is a new class of vulnerability known as clickjacking, a blogger has created a proof-of-concept game that uses a PC’s video cam and microphone to secretly spy on the player. In a nutshell the attacker lurers the user to a compromised site and when the malicious code is executed the attacker can then activate [...]
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July 25, 2008
The DNS flaw posted earlier this month is still making headlines. Now that many of us has tried to put patches in place and review the best practices we have a new threat to deal with, details of the flaw have been released to the public. It appears that a researcher who is not named [...]
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