Category Archives: (In)Security

Guessing Email Passwords

As part of moving customers from one hosting system to another, we are setting up their email accounts with the same password they are currently using. Based on what I've seen so far, here's some tips for guessing email passwords:

  • Try…

excellent summation of the "war on terror"

From an AlterNet article titled "This Machine Kills Fascists":

"The state of mind in the United States for the past two years is a strange mix of arrogance and paranoia. We are confident that we can defeat something as nebulous as…

yet another reason to get rid of internet explorer

It looks like there is a nice little trojan that installs a key logger which grabs login information if the visitor browses some common Internet banking sites.

how NOT to disclose security vulnerabilities

blogrolling.com had a security vulnerability. It was disclosed on someone's blog.
Not only did this person decide to dislcose the issue at the same time
it notified blogrolling.com (which is now part of Tucows), but they
decided to explain how to exploit it…

m$ offers hacker bounty

Microsoft is offering two $250,000 awards for information leading to arrests of the perpetrators of SoBig and Blaster. Wow, what a good PR move. This does nothing to fix the buggy software they have. Why not spend the half mil on…