New Mac trojan gets in the way

August 12, 2009

A new Mac OS X trojan has been discovered. The threat hijacks DNS requests on the infected system and points the browser to unwanted (phishing) websites, runs various scripts on your system, among other funny stuff.
It is disguised as a QuickTime plugin, triggered by browsing websites requiring a “software update” in order to display properly. [...]

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The future is here… meet Google Wave

May 30, 2009

I stumbled upon this in RSS feeds, and I just checked it out thinking it was yet a new Google service, nothing particular. And it blew my mind, literally.
It’s a kind of revolution in the way we use emails, instant messaging, blogging, micro-blogging, etc. It all mix it up, and emphasize on the content itself.
I [...]

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My install / after install security measures

April 18, 2009

I tend to have a nasty habit of reinstalling over and over again. Nerds won’t ask why, they surely do the same thing. Let’s say that with each new Ubuntu release – at least – I reinstall in order to have a clean system. It’s endless, I know… 
Still, each time I reinstall, there are a [...]

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New zero-day exploit for Firefox

March 26, 2009

According to SecurityFocus, a new zero-day exploit was found in Firefox. As a reminder, a zero-day exploit is a security flaw affecting a software for all current version, and yet unsolved through software update.
The exploit is referred as a “remote memory corruption vulnerability”. “An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the [...]

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