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There’re plenty of software updates this week. First up was for Snow Leopard which is updated to Mac OS X 10.6.2, which contains quite a number of fixes (58, apparently) including an important one that involves data loss. ...
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This was another guest lecture I attended this week. It’s the boss of the company who engaged Jackie Chan to fight virii for its TV commercial we’ve been seeing on our TV screens. Yes, Eugene Kaspersky. The title of ...
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A hot topic going around in WordPress circles now is a worm making its rounds hijacking vulnerable WordPress installations, and how just a little effort on the part of administrators could have saved the trouble of cleaning up ...
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This would be my first visit to Nanyang Polytechnic. I was there for the SCADA Security and Controls event organized by (ISC)2 and AiSP. The venue was pretty nice. I think I would have loved my JC to have been like this. The ...
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In the past week, I attended an IDC conference SecurityVision 2009. Something quite strange was said during the opening address which kind of surprised me. The speaker was admitting to having a virus on her computer which she ...
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In the past, most companies don’t care. They do sell products with security features, but the features are turned off by default because they usually make the product more difficult to setup and use, and customers may get ...
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This week is IT Security Week at NUS, and so they have an IT Security Carnival held at the Forum. They have been running this for some years now, and I must commend the organizers for their excellent work all around. In my ...
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Security updates keeps us busy during festive holidays again. The last one with WordPress 2.3.2 kept us occupied prior to the 2008 New Year. Today, the new WordPress 2.3.3 release happens just prior to the Lunar New Year. The ...
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When ZDNet reports Boeing 787 at risk of in-flight hacking, you start to worry about how your personal safety can sometimes be threatened by hackers. I wonder what was Boeing thinking about when they connected passenger Internet ...
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Yes it keeps us busy even during the festive season. A number of critical security issues were identified with WordPress 2.3.1 (may apply to older versions too) that necessitated an urgent security release. WordPress 2.3.2 is now ...
