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All posts by Jago Maniscalchi

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15 of the best Internet security blogs
August 20, 2011, No Comments

In order to keep up to date, I scan daily across an incredible number of Internet or security focussed news sites and bl ...

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Internet Explorer 9 blocks 99% of malware
August 17, 2011, No Comments

Studies this year have shown that users are four times more likely to be exploited by downloading and executing maliciou ...

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Malware infected spam attacks spike
August 17, 2011, No Comments

Researchers at security lab M86 yesterday reported a massive spike in the volume of malware attachments being spotted by ...

DLL Hijacking Exploit
October 30, 2010, No Comments

The DLL hijack vulnerability is triggered when a vulnerable file type is opened from within a directory controlled by th ...

Facebook launches One-Time-Pad passwords
October 29, 2010, No Comments

Nice to see an innovation on the security front for once rather than endless ‘feature’ updates and announcements of ...

The Social Engineer Toolkit
October 27, 2010, No Comments

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is specifically designed to perform advanced attacks against the human element. SET wa ...

Proof of Concept iPhone rootkit demonstrated
October 26, 2010, No Comments

The success of a group of hackers in compromising the security of Apple’s iPhone may set the stage for more malwar ...

Catching Up With The User…
October 25, 2010, No Comments

With the news that a couple of Android apps have been pulled as they misrepresented their purpose (they were used as re ...

FireSheep exposes risk of sending data to non SSL websites
October 25, 2010, No Comments

It’s no secret that Web sessions that use the bare HTTP protocol to transmit and receive data are susceptible to a ...

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Splunk – Log storage, search and reporting
October 18, 2010, No Comments

Splunk is a leading software system used to monitor, report and analyse text-based IT data, namely log files, statistics ...

Telephone Call Route Fingerprinting
October 18, 2010, No Comments

Security researchers in the States say they have developed a cunning new method of “fingerprinting” voice ca ...

Highly Directed Microphone
October 18, 2010, No Comments

You’re filming a sports game. An argument breaks out between players, and you zoom in to get a closeup of the action. ...

Microsoft releases regex fuzzer
October 13, 2010, No Comments

Microsoft has released a new fuzzing tool designed specifically to find mistakes in regular expressions in application c ...

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Russia tops list of malware sources.
October 13, 2010, No Comments

Analysis carried out on recent malware attacks detected by the Digital Threat sensor network have revealed, unsurprising ...

Adobe Reader Sandbox Protection
October 11, 2010, No Comments

The new version of the popular Adobe Reader software incorporates some major changes in an attempt to stem the flow of c ...

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Washington DC online voting system compromised
October 11, 2010, 1 Comment

Last week, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics opened a new Internet-based voting system for a weeklong test period, ...

Symantec announces iOS and Android security products
October 11, 2010, No Comments

Most of the big companies in the modern age of business are moving to the acquisition model rather than developing new t ...

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Fake Tech Support Scam
October 10, 2010, 3 Comments

They take mere hours to set up and they’re near impossible to shut down: a pernicious new type of scam is targeting Br ...

Live Google Hacking Results Updates
October 10, 2010, No Comments

Francis Brown and Rob Ragan over at Stach & Liu have discovered and published a method to automatically mine Google ...

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Firefox Forensics
October 4, 2010, No Comments

We all know it is important to clear out temporary internet files and cookies, but what other data do commonly used brow ...