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Actually this is not a vulnerability in the product itself, but if you use Asterisk or one of its derivatives such as TrixBox, you should review your SIP and IAX secrets to make sure they are not the same as your extension numbers. As reported by Kerry Garrison on his blog: There are some new scripts...
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Is your ISP patched against the DNS cache poisoning ( US CERT advisory ) exploit? There are confirmed attacks in the wild . My ISP is patched. I asked them, and actually got an intelligent response. They escalated my ticket and a day later came the response: “Thank you for contacting us And again thanks...
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I saw this article in Microsoft's UK Security Newsletter (which you can subscribe to online). Ed Gibson, chief security advisor, relates the following story: The owner of a '.com' web domain name is telephonically contacted by someone claiming to work for a domain registration service. The...
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The recent spate of announcements from the government and others regarding "lost" confidential information has really annoyed me. I'm so angry because every shipped business edition of Windows since 2000 has included encryption technology that was easy to use. Just a few clicks could have...
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Back in 2000 I was in Fry's Electronics in San Jose, California and I stumbled accross a little device called " U.are.U 2000 ". It was a fingerprint reader and some software that replaced the normal Windows login screen with one that allowed you to use your fingerprint to log in. It was...
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I was reading an article by David Overton , a Microsoft employee whose opinions I really respect. Of course, being a Microsoft employee he is always keen to play up the benefits of Microsoft's products, but I think he manages to do so in a fair and reasonable way and his comments are always rooted...
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Tim Long
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Tim Long
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10-19-2007
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Filed under: Opinion, IT, Software Engineering, Security, Small Business, Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista, IT Industry, Home Computing, SBSC
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I found this article by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which claims some laser printer manufacturers are using a form of steganography to essentially 'fingerprint' each page of output, so that it can be traced back to the original printer and, by implication, the owner of the printer...
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An interesting post on the IMPACT blog referred to an incident where two people were arrested and cautioned for wardriving (piggybacking on WiFi networks). This got me thinking about the whole area of protecting your wireless network. Whose responsibility is it to ensure that you have permission to use...
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After the theft from an employee's home of a laptop computer last year containing confidential customer data, the Nationwide Building Society has been fine £980,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). "The failure to manage or monitor downloads of very large amounts of data onto portable storage...
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After the theft from an employee's home of a laptop computer last year containing confidential customer data, the Nationwide Building Society has been fine £980,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). "The failure to manage or monitor downloads of very large amounts of data onto portable storage...
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This new application from Dana Epp's company Scorpion Software (currently in beta ) provides a great way to get an instant overview of what's happening on your firewall. Information is presented in an executive dashboard, both graphically and in tabular form. The graphics are clear and easy to read while...