What does Dox mean? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dox defines dox as personal information about people on Internet, including real name, known aliases, address, phone number, SS#, cc#, etc. So if you think you can keep your data secret or at least not public (the old method was delist your name and address from phone book) today everyone leaves a trail … Read more
Where do we start? In the beginning … well, fortunately we do not have to talk creation or evolution, let’s just go back to early 90’s when the Microsoft Windows Operating system hit a large market share of all personal computing systems. If you look at the early Windows systems, they were not built out … Read more
How dangerous is it? It is an inherent Linux glibc vulnerability. RedHat is discussing it on their articles page – has the CVE number 2015-0235 https://access.redhat.com/articles/1332213 It is nicknamed “Ghost” due to the ghostbyname() function calls in the glibc library, specifically: “GHOST is a ‘buffer overflow’ bug affecting the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() function calls in the … Read more
Yes you knew it would happen, Jan 28 is International Day of Privacy Day https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/01/27/get-smart-on-international-data-privacy-day/ Of course it has many meanings from authoritative sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_28 or http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jan28.htm this may be the most useful historical event I can see: 1973 – CBS-TV debuted “Barnaby Jones” on January 28. ————————————————————————— Yes my belief that we create days … Read more
Snowden documents lead to Regin and malware. http://threatpost.com/researchers-link-regin-to-malware-disclosed-in-recent-snowden-documents/110667 The malware seems to be related to the QWERTY keylogger found in the Snowden documents. The researchers claim a connection with Regin malware platform and the QWERTY keylogger noted in Snowden’s documents. Here is a blog post on the analysis of the QWERTY keylogger to the Regin … Read more
