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By Giedrius Majauskas on August 21, 2007
When you get a membership letter with passwords from a sites you never visited, stay cautious – its a new version of spam virus that sends out greeting cards. Only now the message looks something like this: New Member, Welcome To Website name>. Membership Number: 11424856351 Temorary Login: user4443 Temorary Password: ub825 For security purposes [...]
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By Giedrius Majauskas on July 31, 2007
Yesterday, I’ve been reading answers.yahoo.com and found a question that seemed pretty ridiculous. Some guy asked where he could download some spyware. Wow, I though, he must be crazy. Everyone is talking about spyware, malware and adware and it seems to be all over the Net. But only then I realized finding spyware was not [...]
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By Giedrius Majauskas on July 18, 2007
If you have not upgraded to Firefox 2.0.0.5 and you use Internet Explorer together with firefox, Please upgrade ASAP. There is a lot of finger pointing going on, but one thing is clear: I.E allows executing other programs with un-escaped url thus permitting malicious code execution in other applications, including Firefox 2.0 < 2.0.0.5 and [...]
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By Giedrius Majauskas on July 9, 2007
After a wave of “greeting cards”, I started receiving a new mailing worm letters in my mailboxes, claiming that my mailbox is infected and only a “patch” would help. If you will receive similar letters, DO NOT open the link in them! It will infect your PC! Dear Customer, Our robot has detected an abnormal [...]
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By Giedrius Majauskas on July 9, 2007
When you purchase a network device, you wish it could work out of the box. No tweeking, no custom parameters – just plug in it and use it. This is now the case with most of the hardware, however it has a small cost. Anyone can access your hardware parameters using simple password list from [...]
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By Giedrius Majauskas on July 3, 2007
After the mis-happenings with newscloud platform, I have decided to take a look into Pligg. It is based purely on digg and has customisable interface and supports multiple skins. I was really impressed. Although there are not too much modules, the system is quite capable, interface is nice. After looking into code, I was confirmed [...]
Posted in Reviews |
By Giedrius Majauskas on June 27, 2007
Google released an safebrowsing api to check the site against blacklisted sites. The listed pages are suspected to be related to phishing, viruses or malware distribution attempts. Each of the sites are already checked for parasites for a while, and the blacklist is updated constantly. During the may, google reported that there are billions of [...]
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By Giedrius Majauskas on June 20, 2007
As many of you may know that there is a multitude of seemingly invisible threats to anyone browsing the Web. Spyware, Trojans, malware and other parasites can infect your precious computer very easily. In this post, I’ll write about one of the categories of these threats that may damage your system while surfing the Net [...]
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By Giedrius Majauskas on June 14, 2007
I have read this article about google behavioral analysis, but had no time to post my thoughts. To sumarise, results of experiments are discussed with 2 implications: a) google uses click on SERP’s analysis to change placements for the results ( It is discussed in the google patent as well) b) Google uses Analytics analysis [...]
Posted in SEM |
By Giedrius Majauskas on June 13, 2007
I am trying to keep current with state of the art design practices, although I have not coded anything major for 2 years already. I have a feeling that I need to get in touch with current design practices from within, not only by theory. This is a must for staying productive. Now I am [...]
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