Interesting…an undisclosed number of Seagate’s Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 units have shipped with a virus that steals passwords to online games, such as World of Warcraft. Identified as Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah by Kaspersky Labs, the virus also deletes similar viruses and can disable virus detection software as well. The virus, which was loaded onto the Maxtor [...]
A company named Intego apparently found a malicious Trojan Horse that actually is harmful (OS X attacks and exploits were previously developed that lacked malicious power). According to Intego the Trojan Horse: …disguises itself as a video codec that offers access to a pornographic video…and users attempting to install the codec receive a piece of malware [...]
I had forgotten to add SQL Injection prevention logic when I integrated and implemented a SQL search function for my employer’s internal ASP.NET app. So in this post, I’m adding it for archival and sharing purposes. SQL injection is an attack in which malicious code is inserted into strings that are later passed to an instance of [...]
Just in case you want to make use or take advantage of “hard to hack” passwords, use the Password Chart as your compass. You’ll probably want to use some sort of password manager to auto-fill for you. ;0) Go here to check it out. Ciao!
Phishing is serious business, so a while back I looked around for safeguards to assist me while browsing. In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques.[1] Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. eBay [...]