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15 Grammar Mistakes That Can Trip You Up
Courtesy of Copyblogger, this info graphic outlines the 15 most common grammatical errors for bloggers. If you like it feel free to reblog it – I did! Like this infographic? Get more copywriting tips from Copyblogger.
Malware-infected flash cards shipped out with HP switches
From the article “Malware-infected flash cards shipped out with HP switches” By John Leyden • Get more from this author Posted in Enterprise Security, 11th April 2012 15:26 GMT Interesting (understatement) that a malware laden compact flash card can get shipped out with a product from a respected and revered company such that HP is. [...]
A new credit card breach revealed
Gartner have published an article on another credit card breach, this time an NYC taxi and parking garage company. You can read it here on Gartner’s blog. The reason I’m raising interest is it is stated that a Central American gang successfully answered the knowledge based authentication questions correctly, then took over an under protected [...]
New York Times – Hacking attacks on the increase
In an article in the New York Times online (here) there is mention of “new interest in hacking as a threat to US security”, siting that there were here were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure, factories and databases, compared with 11 over the same period a [...]
Zappos Hacked
From CNN Money – 24 million accounts accessed. CEO states no credit card data exposed. They state the hack gave access to part of their internal network and systems, yet the server that was hacked was based in Kentucky. I thought Zappos operated out of Nevada? The article detracts from the fact that they were [...]
BIND 9 Resolver crashes after logging an error in query.c
Here’s a some news – CVE-2011-4313 with a CVE rating of 7.8 – BIND 9 Resolver crashes after logging an error in query.c. Here is the original post: http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2011-4313. Here’s the description: An as-yet unidentified network event caused BIND 9 resolvers to cache an invalid record, subsequent queries for which could crash the resolvers with [...]
Twitter and Legal Hacking
I’ll admit I haven’t read through the whole article in the link below, but the government legally hacked someone? The fact that “legal” and “hacked” appear in the same sentence is a little concerning. That being said, it is feasible that there are times when something like this might need to happen – National Security [...]
Adobe 0Day Update Tomorrow
It appears Adobe is releasing an emergency update to Flash Player to fix a 0Day vulnerability. Announcing it tells more people about it – catch 22 perhaps? Here’s the release from Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2011/09/prenotification-security-update-for-flash-player.html …it never ends! UPDATE: It appears Google patched Flash for Chrome before Adobe patched their own! Interesting since those that want to [...]
