August 2008 Archives

Aug
4
2008

Think before you click "send" »

The Internet is littered with countless stories of individuals who sent emails they shouldn't have or sent emails to unintended recipients. Before you send an email, ensure that it's only going to go to the intended recipients and think twice about sending it if it could have a negative impact...
Posted by Steve Werby in the Information Security blog.
Aug
2
2008

GIFAR attack - it looks like an image, but it has a malicious paylod »

At this week's Black Hat security conference, researchers will discuss an attack which they've coined the GIFAR attack. The attack involves combining a JAR (Java Archive) file with another file, such as a GIF image file (GIF + JAR = GIFAR). The user's browser would consider the file a valid...
Posted by Steve Werby in the Information Security blog.

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