[ad] It’s not a big deal but it does show a problem with the way Facebook deals with data and how much power they have over people’s privacy. A small slip in coding could cause much worse problems that this, plus this could have happened before but no one picked up on it. It takes […]
Archives for July 2008
Lynis – Security & System Auditing Tool for UNIX/Linux
[ad] Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes. This is a tool that might be useful for both penetration testers performing white box tests and system […]
UK’s Most Spammed Man – 44,000 Junk Mails a DAY!
[ad] I stopped using ISP based e-mail accounts years ago, they always had lousy spam control and after joining a few mailing lists they used to get flooded with junk. I always found web based mail systems to have much more effective spam filtering systems, plus I don’t have to waste my time and bandwidth […]
FWAuto v1.1 – Firewall Auditing & Ruleset Analyzer Tool
[ad] FWAuto (Firewall Rulebase Automation) is a Perl script and should work on any system with Perl installed. Provide the running config of a PIX firewall to fwauto. It will analyze and give you a list of weak rules in your rule base and store the result in multiple output files. Maybe there have been […]
Google to Reveal Youtube Viewing Details to Viacom
[ad] Now this is an interesting privacy related case to think about over the weekend, Google has to reveal viewing details for Youtube to Viacom. Anyone who has EVER watched a Youtube video, that’s pretty extreme. Luckily most people are using dynamic IP addresses, so it shouldn’t be too much of a concern. Unless of […]