I don’t like Microsoft, everyone knows that, but I don’t needlessly bash them if people using Windows are comfortable with it, but here’s just another reason to reconsider options. ”Microsoft acknowledged late Wednesday the existence of a zero-day exploit for Windows Metafile images, and said it was looking into ways to better protect its customers…. Read more »
Posts Tagged: security
Firefox buffer overflow
There’s a Firefox buffer overflow script listed on Packet Storm. The Javascript can be embedded into HTML and make Firefox log a very long topic line into its history.dat file. Any ensuing Firefox starts will cause a crash due to a buffer overflow. The fix would be to delete the history.dat file, which would be… Read more »
Please verify your account
Got another PayPay phishing email today, my filters caught it no problem, so now let’s pollute their database of username and passwords. Here’s the direct link to the Phishfighting page that will flood the phisher’s site with bogus usernames and passwords. If you’re using Firefox I recommend center clicking on the link 5 times (or… Read more »
I'd rather be phishing…
It seems that the phishing site I referred to earlier is now dead (request timed out!) Yah, very cool, now how about another one to keep the ball rolling? Go ahead and try out this one: this one, YAPPS (yet another pay-pal scam). Feel free to open a bunch of tabs on that URL; I’ll… Read more »
New phisher site to fight!
I just got another PayPal phishing email, as always they include a link to ‘login’ to ‘PayPal’ to verify something or another in an effort to learn your username and password. Of course MailScanner tagged the bogus URL within the HTML, and SpamAssasin (this time Razor2) found that it was spam from content *and* a… Read more »
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