Windows XP SP2 and beyond use Windows Firewall to prevent from outside attack. If you have a legitimate program that needs access you can add an exception to the computer for that program. You can do this through the Control Panel on each machine, the Group Policy for multiple machines (more info from Microsoft), or through a script for maximum flexibility. The scripting … [Read more...]
ThreatExpert
The ThreatExpert site has a few components that might be of some interest to those curious about malicious computer threats. Their blog is very good at explaining new forms of threats like click-jacking, flash exploits, and cracking attempts. Along with all the articles on their blog, they also host a "dictionary" of malicious threats so that you can look up everything from … [Read more...]
Managing your Digital Identity
Few people will think about their digital identity when they consider their public exposure. The purpose of this post is not to make you paranoid, but to make you aware of the information that is out there. As we saw recently with Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account getting broken into, one must fully understand and manage their digital identity for security … [Read more...]
SQL Injection Attacks
Anybody that will be coding publicly-accessible SQL-based web applications needs to be aware of the threat from SQL Injection attacks. SQL injection attacks are attempts made by a malicious user to gain access to the SQL back-end database and can occur from, for example, a PHP front-end. One way for the attack to work is to input unexpected data. If it is formatted in a way … [Read more...]
MyFreeCopyright.com on WordPress.com blogs
Upon request, and tangentially related to my post titled "My Brush with Blog Scraping", I'd like to provide a quick step-by-step guide on getting MyFreeCopyright.com to work with your blog. I'll specifically be using Wordpress.com, but I can't imagine the steps would be too terribly different for other blogging systems. MyFreeCopyright.com subscribes to your feed and watches … [Read more...]