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October 2010
Tip of the hat to Bruce Dang and Dave Aitel for flagging an inaccuracy in ESET's Stuxnet report. And, indirectly, leading us to a blip in some PoC code which now looks even more interesting. (But that isn't going public yet.) The paper has been updated to remove the offending item. David Harley CITP FBCS
What a touching email. Mercy saw my profile and wants to know more about me. She even tells me “please don't forget that distance or color does not mean any thing,but love matters a lot”. What a sweet sentiment. Now I’ll show you the email and I think you’ll see what’s wrong with this picture.
Sure, iPhones are a lot more stable than Androids, but there is one place that Android has it all over the iPhone… you get to know what resources an app can access before you install it. This capability, coupled with comments on apps can really help you make better decisions about what you install on
Back in the early 1990’s I had a 386 with 4 megabytes of RAM and a very large 80 megabyte hard drive. That little 386 could do something an Android phone cannot natively do. I could do a screen capture and save it to a file. I thought that for some of my blogs on
This is the last segment in the series. To begin with, I have a question for you… What do you call a device that has a 1 gigahertz microprocessor, 512 megabytes of RAM, several gigabytes of solid state storage, runs programs, can be programmed, and can access the internet? Sound a bit like a Netbook,
Larry Seltzer and David Phillips have kindly sent me the full text of the fake Adobe update messages I previously mentioned…
An email headed “ADOBE PDF READER SOFTWARE UPGRADE NOTIFICATION” has been spammed out recently: of course, it’s a fake, linking to a site that isn’t Adobe’s.
The Stuxnet analysis “Stuxnet under the Microscope” we published a few weeks ago has been updated…
Google translate is pretty cool, but they are missing a language. You can translate from Haitian Creole to Yiddish and from Galacian to Maltese, but you can’t translate from geekspeak to anything a regular person understands. The good part about this for me is that I have a job trying to do just that! David
