TheorizationAlongObliqueSpeculation

With the latest phishing scam going around, in South Africa at least, I have written up this post to get my opinion on keeping yourself safe from the scammer. The title of the phishing mail that prompted this is “CNN.com Daily Top 10” from “Daily Top 10”. It caught me at first until I relised [...]

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I will be redoing the TrueCrypt Benchmarks in the next week on a new PC that is standard spec where I work. It will be Core 2 based with 1GB RAM and SATA drives. I am running TrueCrypt’s FDC on my MacBook Pro under Bootcamp and I haven’t noticed any perceivable performance drop even playing [...]

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I noticed something rather important missing in the realm of Full Disk Encryption, and that was benchmark data. The methodology I followed may be a bit unorthodox but would provide me with a consistant platform to test with.
I installed Windows XP SP2 on VMWare Fusion and applied all the patches available from our WSUS server. [...]

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Excerpt from MyADSL
Hackers have released a sample code for a virus that could infect both Linux and Windows PCs.
The virus, which was given the double name Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a, was reported last week by security firm Kaspersky Lab.
Security researchers worry that the malicious code may be part of a disturbing new trend of viruses that can [...]

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Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: The Case of the Mysterious Driver
A bit biased mabye but still worth the read. He is not one of the top Security dudes in the world for nothing.
In case you do not know who he is (sic) have a read on the Sysinternal About Us page
Between him and Steve Gibson they are [...]

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Can Microsoft Save the Net?  - Wired
Working late one night a few months back, I was just about to sign off when I decided to check my email. At the top of my inbox was a message from PayPal, “confirming” a change in my email address. But I hadn’t changed the address. In an exhausted [...]

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Spotlight on govt IT security - ITWeb
The eSecurity and eCrime Thought Leadership Forum, addressing IT vulnerabilities in the government, begins tomorrow in Vanderbijlpark.advertisement
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The two-day event will feature security experts from the South African Police Service, the State IT Agency and the corporate sector.
“With 10 new vulnerabilities reported every day, it is a full-time job [...]

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Security Fix - Brian Krebs on Computer and Internet Security - (washingtonpost.com)
Microsoft’s Anti-Spyware program is causing troubles for people who also use Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus software; apparently, a recent update to Microsoft’s anti-spyware application flags Norton as a password-stealing program and prompts users to remove it.According to several different support threads over at Microsoft’s user [...]

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Access restricted web sites using Google as a proxy » AviDardik.com
This is a great hack. Say you work in a company that blocks Web surfing to certain Web sites.
O’Reilly posted a super-cool tip about using Google translation services as a kind of Web proxy and bypass this limitation!
You just need to type the following URL:
http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.SomeForbiddenSite.com
What [...]

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