How to win a MacBook Air
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Security on April 3, 2008 at 2:13 pm
1 Enter a competition run by Microsoft where the other computers on offer are a Sony Vaio running Vista or Fujitsu laptop running Linux, which apparently no-one seemed greatly interested in winning.
2. Three weeks before the competition try to break into a MacBook Air and on finding it secure, spend a week preparing what is rumoured to be a Java exploit in a web browser.
3. On the first day of the competition, continue trying to crack into the MacBook without success.
4. On the second day of the competition, go to your website where you have left the file you prepared in advance. Download the file and let it run on the computer. Surprise, surprise, you’ve gained access to the computer which you have just won and the $10,000 cash prize as well.
However, you did gain access. The guy trying to crack the Vista machine took another day and he used a Flash exploit to get in.
• Should Mac users be worried? No.
• Should we run anti-virus software? It wasn’t a virus that cracked the MacBook, although ClamXav is a free virus detector so it seems sensible to run it just in case.
• Should we turn the Firewall and security Preference Panes on? Yes, as well as router firewalls, and enable stealth mode too.
• Should Apple fix the problem? Definitely. They seem ready to dump Java as a default install and these Safari ‘glitches’ are becoming tiresome to read about.
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Virus? What virus?
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Security on February 14, 2008 at 8:59 am
You have to hand it to the motoring journalists, public transport is no way to get around London. Except in a flying taxi driven by Milla Jovovitch dressed in a few bandages, with Natasha Henstridge and Charlize Theron to open the doors and the nice lady from the BT ads to handle any calls. Read more
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Adobe’s sneaky cookies takes the biscuit
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Security on December 11, 2007 at 11:02 am
It is a good bet that as astute IT Pros you control who puts a cookie into your computer (and if you don’t you should). Sneaky Macromedia devised a whole new type of cookie storing up to 100k of data, these are Flash Cookies. Never heard of them? You have now.
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A Tale of Two CDs
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Security on November 23, 2007 at 11:25 am
There are some questions I haven’t seen asked about the two missing data disks and more pertinently, the data held on them.
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