Late last week, Adobe announced an update to its Flash Player product for Windows only. Flash Player was updated from 11.3.300.268 to 11.3.300.270. The minor update addresses a crash with the Adobe Flash Player Update Service (FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe). The update, however, is not available from Adobe's Product Download Center. … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2012
Malicious IPs, URLs, Content by country and other stats [infographic]
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AlienVault has used the data from the first 5 months of operation from its Open Threat eXchange to build an infographic that shows the sort of content it is seeing. The malicious IP addresses are plotted based on country around the world. The IPs are attributed to "crimes" like pushing malware, attacking honeypots, etc. They could be innocent computers infected with malware or … [Read more...]
Search for photos by color with TinEye’s Multicolr
TinEye makes some pretty cool products surrounding image search on the web. I previously wrote about them as a tool to find the original source of an image. A new tool from TinEye's labs is called Multicolor Search. It allows you to find Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr based on color composition. … [Read more...]
Sophos Threatsaurus makes malware and other threats easy to understand
Sophos has provided their 2012 Threatsaurus free for download. It is a glossary of common terms in data security presented at a casual level that makes it easy to understand and fascinating to learn. The 131-page book goes through security terms, security software and hardware, safety tips, and even a history of malware. … [Read more...]
Microsoft reduces password length to 16 characters on Windows Live accounts
Something struck me as a little funny yesterday when signing up for an Outlook.com account and my password was blocked for being too long. Outlook.com passwords are limited to 16 characters in length. Today, when I went to log into a Windows Live service, I got another message. Microsoft account passwords can contain up to 16 characters. If you've been using a password that has … [Read more...]