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Asking for trouble…
The UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown admits something that we knew all along in that the weakest point of secure system are the people who use it! It was reported that mistakes that happened in the most recent loss of tax return information by Atos Origin were “human” and mistakes would happen because people were [...]
Mac – No DNS patch, No Safari
There is still backlash from Dan Kaminsky and his DNS poisoning find. There is still concern that apple have not got with the programme still. There appear to have a fix for servers but not for clients.
In other news, Mac users have been told to use Firefox or Opera instead of Safari. Safari appear to [...]
Pwnie Awards
The nominees are in for the security’s answer to the Oscars.
Get a warm fuzzer feeling…
Fuzzers are not stuff found in your belly button. No but they can be thought of something that randomly prods belly buttons. Seriously though they are automated programs that can look for vulnerabilities in applications by injecting random code that could break them. Basically, you are looking how applications respond. Is your try-catch-finally statements up [...]
Security sites and XSS
You should always practice what you preach and the giants are not doing that all… Check out xssed! Versign, McAfee and Symantec have been found to be vulnerable according to the register.
McAfee do not appear to be handling XSS very well as their ‘hacker safe’ certification does not cover all XSS according to [...]
