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DNSChanger ‘temporary’ DNS servers going dark soon – is your computer really fixed?

01

Jun

2012

DNSChanger, a piece of malware that re-routed vast swaths of Internet traffic through rogue DNS servers after users became infected, was shut down by the FBI late last year. But since simply shutting down the servers altogether would’ve ‘broken’ many hundreds of thousands of computers still infected – rendering it difficult for them to get […]

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Anatomy of a security hole – the break that broke sudo

21

May

2012

A recently-patched bug in the widely-used sudo command makes for interesting reading. The patch reminds us of some important points in security-related programming.The UNIX sudo command is usually translated to mean “do as superuser” – in other words, it lets you run administrative commands one at a time, without logging in as the superuser (root, […]

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We Need More Than Jelly Bean

19

May

2012

Google is set to launch Android 5.0, aka Jelly Bean, this fall. But do we even need it? While Google has made some steps in securing its Play branded marketplace, and offered a few security updates to the operating system, it is a fact that the most targeted Android platform is still 2.x. Why is […]

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