UK new cyber strategy
Yesterday (25.11.2011) UK government published its new cyber strategy on the cabinet official website. The short annotation says that the new cyber strategy “sets out how the UK will support economic prosperity, protect national security and safeguard the public’s way of life by building a more trusted and resilient digital environment.” The strategy full text…
Mobile device profiles
If you need to analyse mobile software or just want to browse mobile web application but you want to avoid not so comfortable mobile browsing then you could use the Forefox add-on – Modify Headers (http://www.garethhunt.com/modifyheaders). In order to simulate the mobile device browser you need to feed Modify headers with the corresponding mobile browser…
The reason behind the fraudulent Google cert – DigiNotar security breach
VASCO subsidiary DigiNotar admits that a security breach in their CA infrastructure had been identified. As a result of the attack several fraudulent certificates had been issued among which a fraudulent Google certificate. Microsoft, Mozila ana Google already removed the DigiNotar root certificate form their trusted lists.
Anubis sandbox or “Analyse this!”
If you would like to know more about the behavior of a particular malware, but you do not want to build your own sandbox or you just have not the resources to build it then may be you can find Anubis service suitable for your needs and pretty convenient. Anubis had been developed by IsecLab.…
Qualys – free SSL test
After publishing a methodology for SSL configuration assessment, Qualys startedfree service their methodology. The result of the assessment is a grade based on 4 indicators: Certificate information Supported protocols Key exchange Cipher strength Enjoy!
LinkedIn with new default ‘privacy’ settings
The social networks those days started to play with out privacy settings more often then we’re expecting and not always with our consent. LinkedIn currently became one of them – they set by default a privacy settings that allow them to use your name, picture and other privacy settigns in advertisements – HOW NICE! So…
MITRE issued their perspective on most dangerous software errors
Software is everywhere those days, and unfortunately bad codding practices together with tight schedules and demanding market brings tones of vulnerabilities. Of course there are people that are happy to find out the holes and exploit them. CWE recently published their opinion regarding the software errors summarizing it in a document called “2011 CWE/SANS Top…
Microsoft amendments in their “immutable” security laws
Version one of the Microsoft “immputable” security laws can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722487.aspx. Currently Microsoft made some amendments and published version 2 of their immutable lows. And the new version can be found on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh278941.aspx. So those laws apparently were not so immutable. I started wondering what else from the Microsoft category “immutable” is susceptible…
Arabic names dictionary
My small contribution to the community – a dictionary with Arabic names – both male and female Arabic names dictionary @ packet storm Enjoy
Imaginary Marching Band – freaky!
One of the things I really enjoy are DIY things and admire ppl, coming with great ideas and making our life more colorful. Here is an example – http://www.imaginarymarchingband.com/. Those guys are making small prototypes of instruments so you can play you’re favorite marching band instrument only by pantomiming with your hands. I really enjoyed…
