October 2007 - Posts

Doing it yourself.
26 October 07 08:22 PM

Hello again Two blogs in less than 48 hours? Whatever could be happening? No, this is not a reference to the issue documented in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/943521.mspx which is interesting but certainly not widely exploited in Read More...

Postedby marklon | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Security, malware, viruses

You can't get the staff – Social engineering
24 October 07 05:17 PM

Sometimes I like to talk about software engineering but today I would like to ramble on about a different subject: Social engineering. Social engineering is a common technique for getting malware on systems and of course, for Phishing. The “419 scam” Read More...

Postedby marklon | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Security, malware

Malware: mitigating maladies might matter
17 October 07 06:40 PM

Well, another update Tuesday done and dusted. We are not supposed to use the word "Patch" So, the question that I left you with was what could be done to make it safer to run on a compromised computer; that is to ask how could you mitigate the risks? Read More...

Postedby marklon | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Security, malware