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Outlook webmail passwords restricted to 16 chars – how does that compare with Yahoo and Gmail?

Aug

2012

Outlook.com, Microsoft’s relaunch for Hotmail, has already had over one million new sign-ups from users keen to try it out.Jokers were also quick to grab available email addresses, beating Microsoft’s CEO to the punch by grabbing [email protected] and [email protected], for instance.Although these addresses were no doubt acquired for fun, there can be little doubt that […]

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The owls are not what they seem

Aug

2012

Sometimes malware really doesn’t want to be analyzed by researchers and analysts, and refuses to run in a testing environment or when being debugged. Today, we will look into one sample which does even more and completely changes its behavior when being analyzed. Actually, it pretends to be just ordinary backdoor probably to discourage malware […]

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MySQL Password Verification Bypass CVE-2012-2122

Jun

2012

Recently, security researcher Sergei Golubchik reported a security issue in MySQL in which an attacker could log in to a MySQL database using literally any password. With this entry, I would like to take some time to explain the issue to our customers. The problem is serious in affected systems – but the exposure surface […]

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Outlook webmail passwords restricted to 16 chars – how does that compare with Yahoo and Gmail?

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