The Family CA
This cartoon appeared in the october 2011 issue of the IETF Journal and was inspired the broken Diginotar CA.
Tag: Security
More Postbank Secure Code annoyances
Remember my previous post on this topic. I went back to the postbank site to see if things had improved. Turns out they have not. Here is a screenshot from the page explaining the SecureCode. Its all about the footnote (the …
Credit Card , Domain Name, Spoofing and Phishing
Updated: Aug 22 to add that the Postbank now informs their users about the use of the arcot domain. Updated: Aug 24, some slights textual edits. Updated April 8, 2012: html code and moved pictures to a different location Often people argue that DNS spoofing will not impact peoples ability to do banking and such. With the current practices both with user interfaces as …
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More trustworthy links…
Today I upgraded, without any hesitation, my license for Curio that came with version 5 today. I payed with Pay Pal and got a nice confirmation mail. Being a bit touchy about user interfaces and domain names (see my post earlier today) …
Planet Earth to M$…. beeebbb… noiisssseee… beeepppp
I just read an article on ZDnet. It describes a demo of an exploit on an un-patched XP SP1 machine on an open wireless network. The MS executive was surprised by the ease of the attack. Nick McGrath, head of platform …
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International Domain Names for .NL
Yesterday I presented a column at het Domeinnaamdebat 2006. It was intended to start a discussion on the use of IDN within the Dutch top-level-domain. Although I am very supportive of the IDN technology I do not think it is …
DRM DNS Stats…
In a recent post on the SONY DRM Hell Bruce Schneier refers to a statistical analysis done by Dan Kaminsky. Kaminsky asked more than 3 million DNS servers across the net whether they knew the addresses associated with the Sony …
We should have seen this comming.
SHA1, SHA2, SHA3, what’s the next hash I’m going to see. The Feb 7 FWC.com article "Hashing out encription" first paragraph reads: Federal agencies have been put on notice that National Institute ofStandards and Technology officials plan to phase out …