July 2009 - Posts
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about how a couple of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University broke the code for assigning Social Security numbers. Using an algorithm, they were able to predict about 5-10% of the time what your number was given a certain
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I debated whether or not I should tell this story, but I decided that I would since I haven't done anything wrong. Recently, I had to change the mailbox key of a condo that I rent out. The only problem is that I don't have the key for it, so I had
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Today, out of curiosity, I decided to take a look at which botnets were sending us spam and then doing a breakdown of highest offending botnets. This is a simple snapshot and not necessarily representative of our entire network. Since we block so
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In two months, on September 23-25, 2009, Virus Bulletin is having its annual conference. This year, it will be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland. What is so special about this year's conference? Well, I am going to be one
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Story time. Last Wednesday, I lost my cell phone. "Great," I muttered. I looked everywhere in my home, my office at work, and the probably location in which I lost it (one of the cafes at Microsoft). No luck. I wasn't
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I've been doing some research internally to prepare for Microsoft's next Security and Intelligence report, but I thought I'd give my readers a sneak preview. These numbers are quite surprising so I thought I'd share them. In my department, we block
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I don't use very many Instant Messaging pieces of software anymore. In my time, I have used Yahoo messenger, ICQ, Live Messenger (MSN), AIM (AOL), Gaim, Office Communicator (Microsoft corporate) and Google Talk. I used to really like Yahoo messenger
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This past weekend, I was watching Return of the King. Even though I think that the first one is my favorite, it is my opinion that the third one is the best one. Anyhow, I was struck by how the characters behave in selfish manners in the movies
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I am making a change in policy to this blog. I am no longer going to allow anonymous users to comment. I am getting piles and piles of spam messages in my comments that are sent to my email inbox and it's polluting my inbox and my junk mail
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You know, it's bad enough that these fracking Twitter spammers are polluting my Twitter following count (inflating it from zero to three). I went and checked out the page that they redirect to and when I type into the address bar to navigate away
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A couple of weeks ago, I blogged on the topic of whether or not Twitter spam was possible. It turns out that not only is it possible, but it's rampant and really annoying. I signed up for Twitter a couple of weeks ago and without even having written
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I was reading the other day that researchers have figured out a way to guess your social security number. From the Kansas City Star : Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross of Carnegie Mellon University report in today’s edition of Proceedings
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From the Associated Press : SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean intelligence officials believe North Korea or pro-Pyongyang forces committed cyber attacks that paralyzed major South Korean and U.S. government Web sites, aides to two lawmakers said
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The following is an excerpt from Investor's Business Daily: Microsoft ( MSFT ), the software giant, increased its market share in U.S. Web searches to 8.23% in June from 7.81% in May, thanks to its new Bing search site, according to tracking firm StatCounter.
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