Friday, March 20th, 2009
Worming our way out of trouble
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website for your delectation and delight]
The Conficker worm will be active again on April 1st, according to an analysis of its most recent variant, Conficker.C, by the net security firm CA.
This malicious piece of software, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, spreads among computers running most [...]
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 9th through July 10th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 9th and July 10th:
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy – Ecellent piece and one of the few that goes back to the psychology literature.
Wordle – EU Telecoms Law –
Tim Berners-Lee at NESTA on the Future of the Web « Perfect Path – Excellent critique [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 5th through July 7th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 5th and July 7th:
Slashdot | The Internationalization of Malware – Nice attempt to take a multicultural view of malware
Why Identi.ca needs to look further afield than open source. Strange Attractor – excellent analysis from Suw, as usual.
Wendy?s Blog: Legal Tags » Privacy Falls into YouTube?s Data Tar [...]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Tread softly, because you tread on our websites
[As ever, this is also on the BBC website, edited to take out the Yeats...]
Sometime in October a malicious program exploited a security flaw in the Wordpress software I use to host my weblog and injected some extra commands into one of the widgets I use to add features to the site.
They opened up a [...]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Malware and my blog
It seems that sometime last week my blog was hacked and a discreet little <iframe> linking to a malware hosting site was added to the 30boxes widget you can see on the right. It wasn’t 30boxes fault – the widget code hadn’t changed, so I assume that something managed to inject the relevant line of [...]
