New Media + IT

On Friday one of the most heavily trafficked news sites here in Denmark, ekstrabladet.dk (where I'm employed) offered its visitor a nasty little treat: A back door on their PC, installed on the computer using some sort of code injection in one of the advertising banners.
The problem has been solved now, with the help of [...]

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[ categorized as: Security ]

Just got an email from PayPal (allegedly) saying that my account will be closed, unless I click a link in the email to active my account.
This email has scam written all over it. First of all, I doubt that PayPal would ever send out an email like that. Second, the email wasn't even send to [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Security ]

I'm not completely into the regulations here in Denmark on it, but in US of A it's apparently illegal to use someone else's open (as in 'not secured') wireless internet connection.
How’d you like to get arrested for stealing Wi-Fi? As odd as that sounds, it happens. One perfect example of this came out of [...]

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[ categorized as: Internet, Security, Wireless ]

MSBlog has an interesting, and incredibly disturbing, blog post about how much you can do with a Vista bootable DVD.
All a person has to do is to boot a computer into the recovery mode using the command prompt, which doesn't require user name or password. This means, that the cracker can get full access to [...]

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Security, Software, Windows ]

Via Digg I found a site with a test consisting of 21 questions to determine if you are a "stupid" computer user.
But the site is down right now, so here's the list copied from the Digg page.
My favorite is number 11 :D — although number 7 is somewhat hilarious…Go Clint!

Do you proclaim, out loud, your [...]

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[ categorized as: Security ]

I use Bloglines — a lot.
But whenever I'm on a wireless network, that isn't secured or encrypted I refuse to sign in to services that doesn't have a secure login (with https:// in the address bar), since everything transmitted unencrypted via a wireless network may be visible to anyone else on the network.
This means, that [...]

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[ categorized as: Internet, Mobile, Security, Web applications ]

At CNet Declan McCullagh has a post on how FBI has lost 160 laptops and 160 weapons the last 44 months — one of the laptops contained »names, addresses, and telephone numbers of FBI personnel«.
Also note that most of the laptops apparently were simply lost, not stolen. Comforting.

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[ categorized as: Security ]