Category Archives: Blatant Incompetence

Bellevue, Washington-Based LocalBlox Leaves 48 Million User’s Scraped Data Fluttering In The Breeze

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via the eponymous Graham Cluley, writing at the BitDefender Security Blog, discusses the incontrovertible evidence of information security incompetence exhibited by Bellevue, Washington based LocalBlox (further via Zack Whittaker of ZDNet). Of which,… Continue reading Bellevue, Washington-Based LocalBlox Leaves 48 Million User’s Scraped Data Fluttering In The Breeze→

Don’t Trip the Pony – Microsoft Releases Fix to Fix Intel Fix

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via the inimitable Peter Bright – reporting, as it were, for our beloved Ars Technica; in which, the Good Mr. Bright regales us with the news of an apparent fix for the quivering jelly of a patch Intel released to fix their own craptastic fix. Enjoy.
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Another Flawed Bit of Intel Corp Nonsense, The Active Management Technology Vector

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Reportedly, Harry Sintonen, empolyed at F-Secure as a security researcher, discovered during the course of his labors – a flaw in Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) firmware. Ooops.
As is typical of Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) the firm is… Continue reading Another Flawed Bit of Intel Corp Nonsense, The Active Management Technology Vector→

Mozilla Extension Store Laboring Under Spam Infection

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A beautiful Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens), and Not a Firefox.
Martin Brinkmann, writing at GHacks, targets the proliferation of spam extensions flooding the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox AMO Web Extension Store. Further proof of deep administrative inco… Continue reading Mozilla Extension Store Laboring Under Spam Infection→