Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
I wanted to offer my personal backup routine to all those that do not have something in place and not sure where or how to start. I tried many different methods over the years and so far I think this is the best one for me, my amount of data, ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft's search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt."I think judgment matters," said Schmidt. "If you have something ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Trusteer warned the customers of website hosting companies, including yahoo.com, against a new phishing attack aimed at stealing their content management system log-in credentials. The e-mails appear to be from a website hosting firm and ask website owners to confirm their cPanel/FTP account information. Using this information, criminals are uploading ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Vulnerability assessment vendor Rapid7 has announced the first of a series of steps to integrate its penetration testing and vulnerability assessment scanning products. The first step is a module that allows users of the Metasploit Framework, which Rapid7 acquired in October to natively import NeXpose scanner results and then take ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Here is a great video from Robert "RSnake" Hansen explaining what DNS Rebinding actually is and shows some various attacks that may be performed as a result of it. RSnake also explains what can be done to fix the problem and explains why it might not happen any time soon.
DNS ...
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