26 days ago
nelson : McAfee on Google hack - They name it "Aurora" and say it's an IE exploit
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nelson : 1 billion spams analyzed - Nice stats on 5 years of spam collection. Fraud is on the upswing
# copy3 month ago
nelson : Photoshop CS4's DRM - Stupid copy protection prevents the product from being installed, requires Windows owners reinstall the OS
# copy3 month ago
nelson : Don't store memory pointers - 15 year old design decision in Visual C++ precompiled headers turns into serious bug with Windows 7 address space randomization
# copy3 month ago
nelson : Photoshop CS4 sliders - One product: 10 different styles for a single UI control
# copy3 month ago
nelson : iTunes blocks Palm Pre - when is that anti-trust investigation starting?
# copy5 month ago
nelson : REST-* - Promising to bring the complexity of Enterprise Software Integration to the simplicity of RESTful web services
# copy6 month ago
nelson : SEO gone bad - Texas political campaign's website was keyword stuffed
# copy6 month ago
nelson : Curse Gaming hacked - That Adobe Flash vulnerability is real, and someone targeted Warcraft accounts with it. Nice.
# copy7 month ago
nelson : iPhone SMS exploit - Buffer overflow = bad time. Phone manufacturers and carriers live in fear of bugs like this.
# copy7 month ago
nelson : Network Solutions hacked - Weren't they supposed to be the really secure company?
# copy7 month ago
nelson : JSONP - How do you work around the browser security restriction against loading data from remove servers? By evaluating any code they send you!
# copy7 month ago
nelson : Crazy old Flash vulnerability - Great description of the twisted thinking required to write sploits
# copy7 month ago
nelson : Malware bank fraud - Trojan steals bank logins, sends money to dupes who then wire it to the crooks in Ukraine
# copy7 month ago
nelson : Shockwave crash icon - Love the image: sad puzzle piece
# copy7 month ago
nelson : MS search slamming? - Suggestion that Windows Search is now setting browsers to search on Bing
# copy8 month ago
nelson : Smart meter botnet - Electricity grid infrastructure has security holes
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9 month ago
nelson : Google's routing problem - Half the Internet was sad today when Google got slow. Sounds like they had a routing mishap.
# copy11 month ago
nelson : Malwarebytes - Recommended anti-malware software, newer than Spybot, etc.
# copy11 month ago
nelson : Conficker update - Popular press account of the most recent major worm botnet
# copy12 month ago
nelson : Another Adobe exploit - Buffer overflow, "a fix will be coming". Adobe products are the weakest link in broswer security.
# copy12 month ago
nelson : Magnolia outage - Such a shame
philgyford : Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline | Epicenter from Wired.com - Another week another case of people losing data they've entrusted to a hosted service. (via Lee)
# copy13 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Interview with an Adware Author - Interview with an Adware Author: heh
Andy Baio : Interview with a former adware programmer - the lengths they went to avoid detection was pretty incredible
nelson : Adware Anatomy - fascinating article about how evil malware works
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