Getting “Londoned” – losing your email account
This is the collation of last week’s interesting APWG mailthread on getting “Londoned”, when your GMail/Facebook/… account is compromised and all your …
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Social paraSites
We already had online virusses and worms, now we got paraSites too.
The word ‘parasite’ comes from the Greek ‘parasitos’ (but then in …
Get hacked, get charged, get offline
This is a fictitious story about a small Australian business owner, let’s say a Dentist. One day she decides to spend her marketing dollars on a website, …
A saphe Xmas
The Xmas season is upon us, as evident by the Xmas trees appearing in shopping malls, and the Xmas promotions filling up our (e-)mailboxes. One such Xmas promo …
Australian Internet Censorship
My take on the “Clean Feed” filter, aka the “Rudd Filter”.
But first this.
A 2006 UQ study found that road accidents, more than 25,000 serious injury accidents …
2001, a browser's Odyssey: IE6 turns seven
2001, the year of 911 – Twin Towers, and IE 6.
IE 6 is seven years old today. Amazing how time flies. “2001, a browser’s Odyssey”. Where were you on …
DOM Scripting gotchas
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DOM scripting gotcha’s
Started working on a new project with a new colleague the other day, and we decided to use JSON to handle the data …
XSS/Phising with PDF
There’s currently a lot of chatter on the securityfocus mailing list about the pdf-javascript vulnerability
disclosed by Stefano Di Paola and Giorgio …
Policing the net
There is a thread running at the OpenDNS blog about handling cybersquatters, domain names which look like the real deal, typo’s by the user for example, …