May 24, 2007

Death threat, a new form of Nigerian Scam ?

I received a funny death threat email this morning, as much as death threats can be funny in the first place. It appeared straight away to be some sort of scam, but just to be sure and to have a good laugh, I looked a bit at the email headers...

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December 21, 2006

Convert Windows' dir /s to find format

Sometimes you would like to convert the output of DOS/Windows' DIR /S command into the output of UNIX' find command. You will find here a basic script that does just that.

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December 18, 2006

ATM pin reversal scam

A scam letter is circuclating in Singapore telling potential victims of ATM money snatching how to call the police automatically. How naive people can be...

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November 14, 2006

ATM Security & NETs Security

Recently, Singapore has had a wave of ATM Frauds. Measures have been taken by banks to monitor and attempt to avoid ATM frauds as much as possible. If someone performs a fraud using a copy of your ATM card, chances are that the bank will issue you a new ATM card, and will reimburse you immediately the missing money.

What happens on NETs enabled machines?

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November 12, 2006

Automating SpamCop Reporting

SpamCop is great. You should subscribe, it's worth it and it's for a worthy cause. However, it's a real pain to report 100 spam messages at a time. We propose here a quick Perl script that processes your SpamCop queue.

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October 16, 2006

SSL cipher suite choice

What's the risk of allowing low-grade encryption algorithms on your SSL-enabled server?

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June 10, 2006

Authentication with X509 certificates

X509 certificates (a.k.a. SSL certificates) is often synonymous to strong security. What are their advantages and drawbacks?

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June 1, 2006

System partitions and security

It is a common belief that allocating several partitions on your system is a Good Practice especially when it comes to security.

Is that really the case?

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