After missing the announcement for the second part of the Network Forensics Puzzle (yes, I’m subscribed the feed now!) I would like to regain your trust by bringing two other contests to your attention:

• Miracle on Thirty-Hack Street from ethicalhacker.net
• the sevenfour challenges (a “keygen-me” type of challenge ...

Yet an other example of real-life Chinese whispers in the security journalism:

A Hungarian online news site published an article titled “Hackers tried to steal user data from Amazon” (here is a somewhat usable automatic translation for the non-Hungarian speakers). I assume that the information went like this:

What happened ...

It had to happen, didn’t it? I’ve fired up Pidgin with the microblog-purple plugin, only to get an “invalid certificate” error for twitter. I’ve quickly became nervous, since a quick digging ...

These days most online shops offer the ability to use discount codes at checkout and get a price reduction anywhere from 5% to 50%. These codes are announced in various media (like podcast or blogs), but even if you don’t follow the particular program, it is rather easy to ...

I’m happy to announce that I’m one of two “spam killers” on the Software Engineering radio website. Spam was starting to run rampant on their site ...

One of the interesting thing I like to do when reading (security) blog posts, is to try to deduce details about the machine setup used. You can find some very interesting tidbits of information, like Sunbelt using Symantec AV on some of their machines.

A couple of current examples:

• a ...

A talented photographer with a lot of beautiful images. Check them out below or on his flickr stream. Go OPE!

We begin today’s FUD-buster with – applause please – cyberterorism via an “article”: Cyberterrorism: A look into the future. The article talks about Estonia (which is the poster-child for “cyber” incidents these days) and says the following thing (amongst others equally high-quality content) – emphasis added:

“The three-week cyberattack on Estonia ...

ActivTrak is an activity tracking and employee monitoring software. It currently supports the 32 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP and Vista with support for 64 “coming soon” (no word on support for Windows 7 as of yet). The features are the basic ones one would expect from such a ...

I have posted reviews trough ReviewMe for VoIP products before, but here is an other other one: Vocalocity is a provider specialized on small business voip. They’ve been in business since 2005 and all the reviews about them which I could find were glowing (one might suspect foul play ...