http://viewfromthebunker.com A blog about security and availability from some of the folk at Symantec Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:03:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en viewfromthebunkerhttp://feedburner.google.com 3.141592654... is about my limit when it comes to remembering Pi... and that seems to have worked for me. However... there is a new world record... Pi to 5 trillion places! (It's a '2' if you were wondering...) However, the real news here is how much storage it took... 6TB. Not too ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~4/Vb7Bz945jfY" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~3/Vb7Bz945jfY/ http://viewfromthebunker.com/2010/08/31/how-much-space-to-store-pi/ A really cool bit of research from the University of Pennsylvania has looked at how smudges on your smart phone touch screen can be used to guess your password. So, while this is all research at present, as per usual it will only be a matter of time before it is exploited. So... along ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~4/NVLeT1DTXrc" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~3/NVLeT1DTXrc/ http://viewfromthebunker.com/2010/08/18/smudged-but-your-password-isnt/ Over nine in ten of all email messages in July were spam. Meanwhile, phishers find a new target with interactive customer support services, according to Symantec’s August State of Spam and Phishing report. The report found spammers changed focus from the World Cup and shifted back to current events like the ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~4/VxhWzv7N-5U" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~3/VxhWzv7N-5U/ http://viewfromthebunker.com/2010/08/12/spammers-turn-to-oil-spill-paul-the-octopus-and-phishing-live-chat/ There have been a couple of stories in the news recently about cached credentials. In essence, you enter your username and password and it enables you to, in this case, easily buy things from the online shop. Making it easier to use compromises the security and here meant that someone ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~4/TCyhL0pYRkU" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~3/TCyhL0pYRkU/ http://viewfromthebunker.com/2010/07/22/cached-credentials-data-loss/ Today the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protocol public key gets added to the ‘root’ name servers. Some commentators such as Alex Pawlik quoted in ZD Net predict it will be a ‘Black Thursday’ for cyber attackers with malicious DNS re-directs becoming a thing of the past. I’m not ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~4/zySYui5AcQ0" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~3/zySYui5AcQ0/ http://viewfromthebunker.com/2010/07/15/is-today-really-black-thursday-for-cyber-attackers-dnssec/ In a recent announcement by SAP, they say that they will 'push all useful data to mobile devices'. Good news... but not entirely unexpected, the smart-phone of today is just as powerful as the laptop of yesteryear and much easier to carry. However, security and usage policies are sorely lacking ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~4/U08wMXy1lPE" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~3/U08wMXy1lPE/ http://viewfromthebunker.com/2010/07/13/from-the-heart-of-the-data-centre/ Vuvuzelas weren’t the only annoyance during this World Cup. Symantec’s July State of Spam and Phishing report reveals that the volume of messages with World Cup keywords in the subject line is more than nine times higher during this tournament compared to that in 2006. Not only this but there’s ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~4/pb5MrYCj-YQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~3/pb5MrYCj-YQ/ http://viewfromthebunker.com/2010/07/09/world-cup-2010-spam-sees-nine-fold-increase-on-germany-2006/ The news last week was that EMC was closing its Atmos cloud storage service with immediate effect - you can keep using it for developmental purposes but that's about all. Why did it close? Industry analysts said that it never took off, and recent surveys show that it is still a ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~4/aOGJ_YuA2vg" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~3/aOGJ_YuA2vg/ http://viewfromthebunker.com/2010/07/05/who-has-your-data-in-the-cloud-its-not-you/ With the news that a couple of Android apps have been pulled as they misrepresented their purpose (they were used as research - duping users into downloading and installing them - to see if people would), it raises an(other) interesting question for IT departments around applications, mobile devices and keeping up with the user. While ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~4/TXByRKlKnzI" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~3/TXByRKlKnzI/ http://viewfromthebunker.com/2010/06/29/catching-up-with-the-user/ Symantec's security response team have found that Shanghai World Expo 2010 is the latest major world event to be hijacked by spammers. We’ve been monitoring several different variations of spam that uses World Expo keywords and email subjects to deliver their usual mix of fake promotions, products and services to ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~4/P04iYRrWe-w" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/viewfromthebunker/~3/P04iYRrWe-w/ http://viewfromthebunker.com/2010/06/23/shanghai-to-london-spammers-will-be-following-the-crowds/