‘computer security’ Archive

The most difficult captcha there is

I was browsing through the site of a celebrity recently and came across the contact page. I was shocked to find the captcha there. Take a look yourself and be amazed : http://www.gulpanag.net/contact_gul_panag.php Why would anyone display the captcha as text ready for a bot passing by to read? (It’s even got a nice class [...]

Hoax mail from “Microsoft”

“Please notice that Microsoft company has recently issued a Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows.” I got this hoax by email. Be careful!

Computer Warming – the new risk?!

Happened to come across a pointer in Slashdot to a Wired article.  From the article – BERLIN — A security researcher has a devised a novel attack on online anonymity systems in which he literally takes a computer’s temperature over the Internet. The attack uses a phenomenon called “clock skew” — the tendency for the [...]