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SayNoTo0870 Man-in-the-middle attack theory
SayNoTo0870 Man-in-the-middle attack theory
23 January 2013
Background SayNoTo0870 is a great service that helps people find geographic alternatives to expensive 0845 and 0870 numbers. An example might be that my bank has a number "0845 123456" for it's lost credit card hotline. It also has the same number "0161 123456". From mobile numbers and most landlines, calling the geographical number, will […]
Who can guess your security question?
Who can guess your security question?
16 February 2012
I was recently importing some legacy mail accounts of mine out of their silos on assorted free webmail sites. In fact, I was stunned to find that some of my Hotmail addresses still had email in them and figured that it was probably worth keeping, if only for the amusement value of "this is what […]
Does your mum now have my O2 phone number?
Does your mum now have my O2 phone number?
25 January 2012
Today we found out that O2 had screwed up their mobile internet proxy settings quite epically and had sent customer phone numbers to millions of websites, worldwide, as a matter of process, presumably by accident. We already know this from the fantastic investigative works of O2 customer and twitter user Lew Peckover, a 28 year […]
CMS upgraded!
CMS upgraded!
3 March 2007
Fantastic! This website has been online what? less than four days and already I’m learning how to upgrade it – in theory the security has been compromised As reported here on Slashdot, From Slashdot: “The recent 2.1.1 release of the popular blog software WordPress was compromised by a cracker who made it easier for to […]
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