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“There is no magic fairy dust protecting Macs" – Dai Zovi, author of “The Mac Hacker’s Handbook"

Google hit by malvertizing

September 23rd 2014

Sad to read this; its been a little while since we’ve read about such a big outbreak: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/google-stops-malicious-advertising-campaign-that-could-have-reached-millions/ So, what can you do to protect yourself between the time something like this hits, the ad networks or others identify it, and it gets shut down? Update **all** software on your computer and your operating system, […]

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Sometimes, CAPTCHA, you do my head in…

September 20th 2014

I have no idea how to answer this…

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web-sniffer.net is back again… temporarily?

September 1st 2014

Functionality *seems* to be back.  But, the site is still listed for sale, and WHOIS has changed. Registrant is now a “Leonard Quack” of “MenschDanke GmbH”, Berlin.  Previously the Registrant was a Mario Mueller of Lingo4you GbR, Machern. Hosting has changed too, from Sedoparking.com to Namespace4you.com Be warned, things could go south again.  The domain has […]

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