Protect Yourself From Key Loggers

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"loggers"

"loggers" 02/19/2004 03:22 PM

Damn those loggers

Damn those loggers 06/17/2004 01:21 PM

I have to say that I agree Dave Winer in this AP article:

"This thing has been blown so far out of proportion," he said. "It's just unbelievable to me."

While I think Dave should have posted a warning ahead of time to users and can take steps to get the sites back online sooner, making this front page news at Yahoo.com (screenshot) is insane, not to mention the ridiculous headline.

Keystroke loggers must send Microsoft
back to firewall drawing board

Keystroke loggers must send Microsoft
back to firewall drawing board 07/02/2004 09:36 AM
Actually, if you're a paranoid Windows user like me, then you're checking Windows Update every day. Because of how aggressively I patch, and because virtually all the headline grabbers have taken advantage of unpatched systems, most of the news wasn't scaring me to death--until this week's reports of two keystroke loggers; one that neither Internet Explorer nor the best anti-virus defenses were well-prepared for, and another for which a client-side patch existed but was alarming in the way it targeted bank accounts.

Don't just protect the unconceived:
protect the inanimate!

Don't just protect the unconceived:
protect the inanimate! 05/09/2004 02:30 PM
Fafnir of Fafblog has written a good think-piece explaining the logical next step in the Bush administration's campaign to protect the rights of the unconceived: protecting the rights of the inanimate.

This is yknow a huge step backwards for women's health and for contraception and the prevention of abortions. But it is a huge step forward for what we at Fafblog like to call the "rights of the unconceived," which is just a few short steps from what we are really lookin forward to which is the rights of the inanimate.

I have personally spent hours an hours talkin to cans, waffle irons, boxes, printer cartridges and forks and they all dream of one thing: no longer bein treated as second-class citizens in the United States.

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Protect yourself!

Protect yourself! 12/02/2002 01:17 PM

How to protect yourself if you use
Windows

How to protect yourself if you use
Windows 09/16/2004 03:05 PM

That's Why You Protect /etc/passwd

That's Why You Protect /etc/passwd 07/03/2004 09:23 PM

Think MD5 is good enough to keep all of your passwords secure? There's a reason that modern UNIX systems recommend you use shadow passwords, and this is it:

This project is dedicated to crack md5 hashes online through web interface. At the moment we can crack md5 hashes in this character range: a-z;0-9 [8] which means we can break almost all hashes (99.56%) which are created from lowercase plaintext with letters and/or digits up to length of 8 characters.

Apparently the site is cracking around 150 hashes a day. This really changed my attitude towards MD5. I'll double or triple-crypt MD5 hashes from now on, or maybe switch to Blowfish .

Via SlashDot.

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Protect Your Web Privacy

Protect Your Web Privacy 07/19/2004 11:21 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 20 2004 3:41AM GMT

How to protect your notebook PC

How to protect your notebook PC 06/30/2004 12:56 PM
PC Magazine UK Jun 30 2004 5:54PM GMT

Protect Your Certificates

Protect Your Certificates 08/15/2004 11:31 AM

"?Protect Your Banana!?"

"?Protect Your Banana!?" 04/21/2004 10:19 AM

Protect and Survive

Protect and Survive 09/06/2004 07:18 AM
Twenty Years Ago, The BBC produced a topical drama called Threads - little did they know the furore it would go on to create. [more inside]

Integrate and protect

Integrate and protect 09/24/2004 09:16 AM
Express Computer India Sep 24 2004 1:42PM GMT

Protect Yourself from Sasser

Protect Yourself from Sasser 05/25/2004 02:37 PM
“Microsoft teams have confirmed that the Sasser worm (W32.Sasser.A and its variants) is currently circulating on the Internet. Microsoft has verified that the worm exploits the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) issue that was addressed by the security update released on April 13 in conjunction with Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011.”

Protect Your PC Against Viruses

Protect Your PC Against Viruses 07/27/2004 12:28 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 27 2004 5:08AM GMT

Re: protect your children

Re: protect your children 12/17/2002 02:45 PM
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How to protect yourself from e-mail
scams

How to protect yourself from e-mail
scams 01/18/2004 10:25 PM
ZDNet Jan 19 2004 2:15AM GMT

Red Hat to Protect Linux Customers

Red Hat to Protect Linux Customers 01/22/2004 02:54 AM
On the eve of a LinuxWorld Expo in New York city, the number one distributor joins other Linux companies in offering a kind of warranty against lawsuits.

Microsoft: Cripple IE to Protect Your PC

Microsoft: Cripple IE to Protect Your PC 07/28/2004 09:23 AM
Microsoft is doing something unprecedented: It wants you to break one of Internet Explorer's key features. Why? Because only by limiting the browser's functionality can you be sure of stopping a sneaky--and dangerous--new breed of Internet virus. This latest targeted attack scenario, which uses malicious code dubbed "Scob" or "downlad.ject," exploits three flaws: two in Windows and one in Internet Explorer. One of the holes involves JavaScript; targeting this flaw, the Scob code lets a hacker attach a program written in JavaScript to Web pages. If you visit an infected Web site, the program automatically executes in IE, and voila! you're infected. Taking advantage of these multiple flaws, a group of Russian crackers recently mounted attacks on several hundred Web sites--aimed at putting lots of visitors at risk. Included on their hit list were some very reputable sites.

A robot must protect its own existence

A robot must protect its own existence 01/25/2004 03:04 PM
Jeff's Robots - five decades of toy and model robots

Protect your investment: buy open

Protect your investment: buy open 01/27/2004 01:47 PM
Scoble has written a weblog entry about, among other things, iTunes DRM and Microsoft DRM, and whether you should get an iPod. Scoble works for Microsoft, as do a number of good, sharp, ethical people that I know, and I know him in passing, and he seems to be a good guy. With that disclaimer out of the way, let me say that I think that this blog entry of his epitomizes the sloppiest, worst thinking about digital-media in the field today.

Scoble's point, if I understand it, is that we are going to spend a bundle acquiring music from "legit" services like the iTunes Music Store and the upcoming Microsoft music store. If we spend hundreds of dollars on digital music, we should be on the lookout to protect and maximise that investment. I agree.

Well, says Scoble, all of the music that we buy from these legit services is going to have DRM use-restriction technology ("See, when you buy music from a service like Apple's iTunes or Napster (or MSN), it comes with DRM attached."). So the issue becomes "choosing between two competing lockin schemes."

And in that choice, says Scoble, Microsoft wins, because it has more licensees of its proprietary, lock-in format. That means that when you want to play your music in your car, it's more likely that you'll find a car-stereo manufacturer that has paid Microsoft to play Microsoft music than that you'll find one that has coughed up to Apple to play Apple music.

And this is the problem with Scoble's reasoning. We have a world today where we can buy CDs, we can download DRM-music, we can download non-DRM music from legit services, we can download "pirate" music from various services, and we can sometimes defeat DRM using off-the-shelf apps for Linux (which has a CD recovery tool that handily defeats CD DRM), the Mac (with tools like AudioHijack that make it easy to convert DRM music to MP3s or other open formats) and Windows (I assume, since I don't use Windows, but as Scoble points out, there's lots of Windows software out there.).

In this world where we have consumer choices to make, Scoble argues that our best buy is to pick the lock-in company that will have the largest number of licensees.

That's just about the worst choice you can make.

If I'm going to protect my investment in digital music, my best choice is clearly to invest in buying music in a format that anyone can make a player for. I should buy films, not kinetoscopes. I should buy VHS, not Betamax. I should buy analog tape, not DAT.

Because Scoble's right. If you buy Apple Music or if you buy Microsoft Music, you're screwed if you want to do something with that music that Apple or Microsoft doesn't like.

Copyright law has never said that the guy who makes the records gets to tell you what kind of record player you can use. If Scoble and his employer want to offer a product with "features" that their customers want, those features should reflect what their customers want: No Windows user rolled out of bed this morning and said, "I wish there was a way that I could get Microsoft to deliver me tools that allow me to do less with the music I buy."

No, the "customer" for Microsoft DRM is the guy who makes the records: the music industry; and not the gal who buys the records: you. That customer has already told Microsoft how it feels about its products: in the Broadcast Flag negotiation, the movie companies locked Microsoft DRM out of consideration for use in next-generation PVRs in favor of DRM that Sony (also a movie company, surprise, surprise) had a patent for.

Microsoft is selling out its customers to people who aren't even buying. Scoble points out that Microsoft licensed the hell out of its OS to hardware vendors, pioneering a new kind of open-ness. He's right. Microsoft set a good example that Apple has been too stupid to follow, and it's time for the company to do it again. When Microsoft shipped its first search-engine (which makes a copy of every page it searches), it violated the letter of copyright law. When Microsoft made its first proxy server (which makes a copy of every page it caches), it broke copyright law. When Microsoft shipped its first CD-ripping technology, it broke copyright law.

It broke copyright law because copyright law was broken. Copyright law changes all the time to reflect the new tools that companies like Microsoft invent. If Microsoft wants to deliver a compelling service to its customers, let it make general-purpose tools that have the side-effect of breaking Sony and Apple's DRM, giving its customers more choice in the players they use. Microsoft has shown its willingness to go head-to-head with antitrust people to defend its bottom line: next to them, the copyright courts and lawmakers are pantywaists, Microsoft could eat those guys for lunch, exactly the way Sony kicked their asses in 1984 when they defended their right to build and sell VCRs, even though some people might do bad things with them. Just like the early MP3 player makers did when they ate Sony's lunch by shipping product when Sony wouldn't.

But forget Microsoft, because Scoble's not talking about the best thing for Microsoft, he's talking about the best thing for you. The best way to protect your investment in music. Without a doubt, the best way to protect that investment is to only buy music that isn't in a lock-in format, and to break the locks on any music you do own, while you can. Scoble asks what you will do if "Apple doesn't make a system that plays its AAC format in a car stereo?" I'll tell you what you should do: you should get yourself tools to turn AACs into OGGs or MP3s right now, so that you can buy any car stereo you want and play your music on it. If you can't get those tools, you shouldn't buy AACs (Student: "What do I do if three thugs follow me down a dark deserted street in the middle of the night?" "Master: Don't walk down a dark deserted street in the middle of the night.")

Microsoft can pursue the bone-stupid strategy of kowtowing to the music labels instead of delivering the tools its customers want, but it's a dead end. When Sony invented the VCR, it did so after the movie companies had already decreed that they would only license their movies for use on the "Discovision," a hunk of shit best forgotten on the trashheap of history (much like the products that Sony later delivered instead of MP3 walkmen). With the VCR, though, Sony delivered what its customers wanted, and the movie companies got rich off of it, dragged kicking and screaming to the money-tree again.

Now, that's grandiose. Now that's visionary. Next to that, Microsoft's fraidy-cat technology is suicidally stupid, and so are you if you invest in it. Protect your investment. Vote with your wallet. Buy open. Link

Vacation tip: Protect your computer

Vacation tip: Protect your computer 05/15/2004 05:20 PM
MSNBC May 15 2004 8:54PM GMT

SpyBloc - Protect Your Privacy

SpyBloc - Protect Your Privacy 09/17/2004 06:04 AM
Ad - http://www.eblocs.com Sep 16 2004 11:59PM GMT

The Committee to Protect Bloggers

The Committee to Protect Bloggers 02/07/2005 01:37 AM
The Committee to Protect Bloggers recently launched their first campaign. In related news Joe Gordon has a new job (via CT).

5 Steps To Protect Yourself From Spyware

5 Steps To Protect Yourself From Spyware 05/02/2004 11:57 PM
About.com Internet Security May 3 2004 3:48AM GMT

Protect Your Wireless Network

Protect Your Wireless Network 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Protect Data In Panther

Protect Data In Panther 06/09/2004 07:27 AM
By Kirk McElhearn, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Protect intellectual property, says AIG

Protect intellectual property, says AIG 03/22/2005 03:23 PM
ninemsn Mar 20 2005 10:59PM GMT

Password-Protect Your Website

Password-Protect Your Website 09/17/2004 10:22 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 18 2004 1:49AM GMT

How To Protect Yourself From Vandals And
Viruses

How To Protect Yourself From Vandals And
Viruses 09/16/2004 10:56 AM
Walter S. Mossberg, in Wall Street Journal: The single most effective way to avoid viruses and spyware is to simply chuck Windows altogether and buy an Apple Macintosh... There has never been a successful virus written for Mac OS X, and there is almost no spyware that targets the Mac.

Protect your network traffic

Protect your network traffic 06/08/2002 10:39 PM
CNET Jun 8 2002 10:10PM ET

Password protect your bl0g

Password protect your bl0g 08/14/2004 02:53 AM

I’ve got a new project, let’s call it Project X, and one of the things I needed to do was set up a password-protected blog on an existing installation of Movable Type. Everyone that has a user account in MT needs to be able to view the blog. I also needed to use basic HTTP authentication so that the RSS feed could be password protected but still be accessed by feed readers that know the password.

I created a single PHP file that is included at the top of each page in the blog, including the RSS feed. In order to get the PHP included, each page needs to be processed by PHP. You’ll need to use all .php file extensions (even for the RSS) or get your Web server to process HTML and XML files for PHP as well. (See the end of this article for information on doing that in Apache.)

Your Web server will now ask for a username and password before it will serve any page that includes the file. The username and password are then checked against MT’s database to see if you have the correct credentials. If you do, you won’t be asked to log in again until you close your browser.

Read on for the code. Keep in mind that this only works if you are using MySQL for a database, use PHP to output your site, and want your blog to be available to any user who can log into your copy of MT.

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Protect PHP software with mod_security

Protect PHP software with mod_security 11/16/2002 07:15 PM
So what do you do if you are in charge of a server where you run other people's software, and you know/suspect the software might contain vulnerabilities? Use the mod_security Apache module, of course. This module allows you to filter requests coming to your application and reject them if they look suspicious. It is still rough on the edges but useful none the less. I already plan a batch of improvements for the next release.

Password protect your Pocket PC

Password protect your Pocket PC 08/30/2004 02:54 AM

Terrorism: How do I protect myself at
home?

Terrorism: How do I protect myself at
home? 03/20/2003 11:55 AM
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Helping Users Protect Themselves

Helping Users Protect Themselves 07/25/2004 08:43 PM

Some soundbites rom The weakest security link?  It's you, a recent News.com article:

People are the weakest link.

Education is the first line of defense.

People are still not thinking before opening an (e-mail) attachment.

The big problem with educating employees on security issues is being able to track whether you're getting through to people.

Everyone knows about viruses, for example, but half the people don't have antivirus software.

While I agree that people are the weakest security link and even the world's strongest lock is useless if not used, I don't think that training employees about security and tracking security policy compliance is enough to fix the problem.

What's the missing ingredient?

Helping users protect themselves.

Just as training drivers all about driving hazards is useless if the driver is a blind, users can't protect themselves if they are not fully aware of what is going on around them.  Was there any suspicoius activities involving my account since last time I signed-in?  Is there someone accessing my online bank account at the same time I am?

If a hacker broke into your computer remotely and used it to send phishing e-mails or spams, how would you know?  Unexpected blinking network connection lights?  Something is wrong when it's easier to keep track of friends logging into their computers than strangers logging into our computers.

Unfortunately, most designers of today's security products see the user only as an input device: I'll give you access to these if you give me this and that.  This mindset encourages people to be more concerned about lossing access than gaining protection.  This is why people reuse passwords and write them down in easy to find places.

Security companies need to start thinking more about helping users protect themselves by providing more information about what is going on and letting them play an active role in security.  If something suspicious is going on, don't let the information sit until probability crosses some security policy thresholds.  Inform the user rightaway.  Remember that, to the user, no news is good news so they'll think what they are doing is all right unless they are warned away from dangerous edges.

There are ways to inform the user without getting in their way too much or making them paranoid.  For example, if an e-mail message has executable or unknown file attachements, mark it visibly as potentionally dangerous.  Hyperlinks should always clearly present the destination URL to the user instead of hiding it behind a possibly bogus text.

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Cut kids' TV 'to protect health'

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TV guidelines to protect children

TV guidelines to protect children 07/14/2004 11:32 AM
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