Articles Archive for 1 July 2009

about face on bruce schneier
Posted in Information and Removal on 1 July 2009

well, it was nice to see something as fundamental the issue of password masking questioned (usability expert jakob nielson’s original article, bruce schneier’s reaction), and then answered (rik ferguson’s response, graham cluley’s response). i wonder i…

month of ‘do as i say’
Posted in Information and Removal on 1 July 2009

well today is the first day of july and that means it’s also the first day of the month of twitter bugs. like past ‘month of X bugs’, each day a security vulnerability relating to the subject product/service (in this case twitter) will be disclosed to …

live by the sword, die by the sword
Posted in Information and Removal on 1 July 2009

so yesterday i got a rather rude surprise by email. google, in their infinite wisdom, had decided to label this blog as spam and had locked it, preventing me from publishing what i had planned to publish. if i hadn’t acted within 20 days the blog would…

Spyware Activity Alert
Posted in Information and Removal on 1 July 2009

When “Spyware Activity Alert!” comes on the PC desktop, user should know that this security warning is a fraud. “Spyware Activity Alert” was created by AntivirusBEST and usually reports many false positives about the PC being infected, typically about IMonster activity, which is trying to steal passwords from Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Outlook and other [...]