Aussie telco Telstra has launched their new Internet and Cyber-safety website for Australian internet users. Shouldn’t the word "safety" also be capitalised? No American spell checker I don’t mean capitalized!
Tuesday 20th July 2010
Sunday 04th July 2010
A few people on Twitter this evening reported that YouTube had been [maliciously] hacked. I clicked the first featured video on the YouTube homepage and was given a blank page that abruptly ended after a few comments containing attempted script code. Seems like a code injection attack exploiting incorrectly sanitised comments.
I run NoScript, so perhaps that’s why I didn’t see anything. If that’s true, its for unexpected situations like this that I insist on running Firefox and with such an extension!
UPDATE: People are now saying it was /b/, the same mob that tried to send Justin Bieber to North Korea. They should have just left it at the latter; it was kinda funny.
Wednesday 02nd June 2010
For those of you not reading the independent North Korean Economic Report site, its writer Curtis Melvin is reporting some fresh attacks against their systems that seem to have come from their namesake. And I thought I had tough critics.
Thursday 22nd April 2010
ZDNet Australia is reporting on yet another bug caused by terminals running anti-virus software on a consumer level operating system instead of using a more efficient and secure embedded system that wouldn’t need such code running in the first place.
Wednesday 31st March 2010
Earlier this month CNET’s David Carnoy compiled a list of 25 features he wanted for the next generation iTelephone. This is my own personal take on them… which isn’t to say other people don’t have different needs!
Tuesday 30th March 2010
Facebook’s constant terms of service changes almost seem designed to test the limits of what they can get away with, much like Microsoft in the 1990s. This is the creepiest part of their proposed privacy policy:
Tuesday 23rd March 2010
If you’re a Windows user, it’s safe to start using Firefox again. Firefox has been updated to 3.6.2 which fixes that nasty exploit CERN discussed and recommended people switch browsers for on the Windows platform.
Friday 19th March 2010
More than ever before I’m asked why I haven’t moved to Chrome, as if it’s just the default option and anything else requires an immediate justification. Hey, it’s religion and atheism all over again! Anyway here’s a pretty table thingy showing why I still use The Firefox.
Tuesday 16th March 2010
I just read this report on Somebody Think of the Children having just seen it commented on by Cameron Reilly on Twitter and shared by Alex in Google Reader. I’m speechless. Game over man, game over.
From the I Can’t Believe They’re Serious department, Bruce Schneier has blogged about a hilarious memory key product (link fixed) that doesn’t get its security from sound, well implemented cryptography, but from.. get this… a two wheel physical combination lock that hides the contact pins!
