I have recorded my first audio blog. It's a general overview of computer security, particularly web-focused.
Security Overview
Sorry if I was a little scatterbrained, it was mostly off-the-cuff which was probably not such a good idea. I missed a couple things as a result, but it goes over the necessities.
Some additional sources and material:
Give it a listen if you're interested, and if you do, please give some feedback.
Security Overview
Sorry if I was a little scatterbrained, it was mostly off-the-cuff which was probably not such a good idea. I missed a couple things as a result, but it goes over the necessities.
Some additional sources and material:
- Panda Labs quarterly security report - Includes chart of distribution of malware
- Security Now Ep 217: Broken Browser Model - Includes details on user-interaction with SSL, and man-in-the-middle attacks
- Safe Browsing with Sandboxie - blog post I made a while back on the program
- VirtualBox tutorial - VirtualBox is a virtual machine program
- Wikipedia page on Hypervisor - I mentioned this quickly without time or coherency to explain
- NoScript add-on for Firefox
- How Installing an Active X Control Can Open The Door To Hackers - Brief but good article on ActiveX
- Sorry, 1up, it had to be done - My 1up cross-site scripting hack published
- Wikipedia entry on Cross-site Request Forgeries - This is well-done. It's a simple concept that's hard to explain.
- Giz Explains: What a RAID Hard Drive Array Is (and Why You Want One) - Gizmodo covers RAID arrays simply enough
Give it a listen if you're interested, and if you do, please give some feedback.
Recently Spotted:
*crickets*
Sandboxie is a great program; I always use it when surfing the net. I've completely given up on IE, and just use Firefox and Opera. Unfortunately, my family refuses to give IE up. I've installed latest versions of Opera, Firefox and Sandboxie on my dad's and sister's computers, but they still use to IE. They also complain that Sandboxie is too difficult to use, which boggles my mind; perhaps I'm just used to it? I did manage to trick my dad into using Firefox by changing its orange icon to IE's icon. He figured it out quickly, and sent me an angry email about it later. I guess it's hard for some people to change their habits, even though both of them have gotten Trojans on their computers in the past six months. To my knowledge, I've never come across any kind of virus on my computers. Being paranoid does have its benefits, I guess.
I'd encourage everyone to listen to it.
You did a good job of avoiding dead air even.
Next time your need the Firefox IE6 skin. You can set programs to run automatically in Sandboxie so they literally don't have to do anything. Oh well.
Thanks, aspro. Yes, this one was geared towards the layman -- the hardest part was continually stopping and having to rephrase in non-tech jargon.
Yeah, I put in that code to autostart Sandboxie whenever they click their internet browser shortcuts. It's the "Whenever I download something, I have to click okay to move it from the sandbox to my desktop?" that really throws them off. "You mean, I have to click okay . . . again? No, that's not for me!"