Following my piece about Google Chrome making password information visible to users (Oh Sh*t - Google Chrome Doesn’t Really do THAT?!) - I got several messages from people who were more worried about my observation that Firefox does the same.
The problem was that anyone using your PC could view a list of all usernames and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'security'
Firefox Users - Read this Now to Protect Your Passwords!
September 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: security · that danny
What do I do if I have a Virus? (Virus Removal and Virus Protection)
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments
What do I do if I have a Virus? (Virus Removal and Protection)
This article covers what to do if you have a virus, or suspect you have a virus on your computer.
THE CAUSE
You are usually vulnerable to a virus under the following conditions:
1. You have virus protection on your computer, but it is not [...]
uStarMeStar - and the ultimate stupidity test from “ustarmestar.com”
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments
uStarMeStar - The ultimate stupidity test (uStarMeStar.com)
Note: zarbydoof.com and Defpics.com operate on the same principle. And all of these sites have hit the top of searched-for terms recently.
You may have received a spam message from ustarmestar asking you to visit it and see pictures of you, uploaded to uStarMeStar site. You don’t recall uploading [...]
Tags: Relationships · security
Yahoo virus / malware report - what to do if you get this (June 08)
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Yahoo virus / malware report is a false positive (Avast)
Yahoo virus and malware reports from around the globe were found to be a false positive, captured by anti-virus program “Avast!”.
Concerned users were reporting the following message when they accessed yahoo.com:
“A virus was found!”
Malware name: VBS:malware-gen
Malware type: Virus/Worm
Avast was quick to inform users on [...]
Photobucket Hacked - Latest Updates
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments
MOST CURRENT - 20 June 08 14.15 GMT:
Things seem to have stabilised as the corrected dns settings filtered out across the web. There are still a small number of users accessing the instructions on what to do to get onto Photobucket, of which some would be due to local caches.
So I guess it’s almost situation [...]
Tags: security
Photobucket hacked - and how not to handle your customers when you get hacked!
June 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Above: Photobucket down - site as seen by some users yesterday.
Photobucket was hacked yesterday, using what seems like a dns hack*
*see “what is a DNS hack?” at the bottom of this post.
Because the Photobucket outage was dns based, it meant that some people could still access the site, whilst others either got a hackers message, [...]
Tags: security
Exclusive: East Sussex County Council puts secret motorist ‘appeals criteria’ on Net
May 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
ThatDanny Exclusive!
I think this must be the start of a series. Government and private companies are producing secret documents, and then placing them on unsecured servers, for Google and the world to see.
On this occasion, aggrieved motorists are unlikely to mind these secret instructions being left open for all to see, but I don’t [...]
Tags: security
