I received some emails from a friend today linking to some seemingly legitimate websites, and the page indexz35X.php which redirects to your typical pharmacy website. This appears to be a variation of the LizaMoon style attack, coupled with a takeover of personal webmail accounts and a spam campaign through them. While the redirected site appears [...]

There’s been a lot of news today about an “SQL Injection Attack” that’s affected over half a million websites. Oh no! First of all, despite comments to the contrary, I’m going to sit here and say: It’s XSS not SQL. The only evidence I’ve seen so far to contradict me is “it was stored in [...]

Let me define a few terms in the IT world: Hackers: Used to be known as the seedy, dodgy guys in films who break PCs. Nowadays hackers are the elite programmers who can turn Lead into Gold and such. Crackers: Always considered “bad”, and now taken on the original definition of hacker. Crackers break things [...]

A weird thing happened to me today. A rogue group invite was sent from my Facebook account. While I would normally admit I could have mis-clicked something, it included a message that I would never have typed. This could have been a bug with Facebook, or it could have been someone accessing my account. I [...]

I’m an avid reader of ZDNet for my technology news, and today came across Adobe screw-up leaves Flash flaw unpatched for 16 months. I’ve never been a fan of Flash, I see it as some kind of blight on the internet. When I was a Windows network administrator, I often had to tell users to shut [...]