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Careers are filled with ups, downs, twists and turns. When I take a moment to look back on my career so far, its certainly been a fun journey. This particular crossroads in my career is special for a whole lot of reasons as it marks the end of an aweso… Continue reading Moving On To The Next Chapter
Last revised or Updated on: 29th February, 2016, 10:58 AMThere is a false positive detection by Eset Antivirus and Eset Smart Security this morning Just about every Google search comes up with the message. These include links via Google to guaranteed safe sites like Microsoft and Eset themselves It has been reported as a false positive and hopefully a new definitions update will be pushed out urgently and quickly ESET NOD32 Antivirus Threat found Access to the web page was blocked. Show URL Access to the web page was blocked. http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0ahUKEwiCvazv2pzLAhWJRhQKHW4CCv8QFgg9MAY&url=http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-performance/32-bit-application-fails-to-start-after-81-upgrade/b825723e-e2a2-4c8f-bd1f-10446a5d7059&usg=AFQjCNEMBOsiyDrA7yaR_b9wN2RsjijxIQ&sig2=QlW4VGgFNlDrT6sHngrwdA&cad=rjt Threat: HTML/Refresh.BC trojan ▪ %learnmore_txt% ▪ %reportbad_txt% Proceed to the siteGo Back Screen shots look like All Antivirus and security software do give false detections at times. This one is … Continue reading → Continue reading Eset antivirus and Eset Smart Security blocks Google
Okay, I’ll just begin with the question and then elaborate a bit below. It is:
Why has the world’s dominant maker of non-Apple smartphone operating systems, Google, still not adopted a straight-to-the-user model of distributing security u… Continue reading Why Can’t Google Just Switch to Pushing Android Security Updates Directly to Users?
Is it in general a security problem not to update your browser. Firefox constantly prompts me to update my browser, but how dangerous is it to not update?
As part of this question, I would like to know what that problem exactly is. What a… Continue reading Why is it a security problem not to update one’s browser?
Mod_security has a rules updater distributed with their release packages on sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-security/files/modsecurity-crs/0-CURRENT/
Usually, you can run the script and modsec will update the rules for y… Continue reading Mod_security rules-updater.pl fails to pull new release
I have an android phone which, like many others, has quickly become unsupported and is not receiving any updates. At the same time there are publicly available exploits for privilege-escalation vulnerabilities, which are main… Continue reading Android security without updates
I have an android phone which, like many others, has quickly become unsupported and is not receiving any updates. At the same time there are publicly available exploits for privilege-escalation vulnerabilities, which are mainly used for le… Continue reading Android security without updates
Visual Studio now includes a Package Manager that downloads and updates software packages from the internet. The common name for this is “Nuget”
The problem I have is that anyone can pretend to be someone else, by spoofing the owner fiel… Continue reading Is there any way to use Nuget securely?