Stack Overflow is a cool site. There is always something weird on it which relates to computing or science or mathematics or something totally different again. But Stack Overflow is not just an eclectic Q & A site for bored…
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Microsoft not going to use Windows
Yupe, you’ve read that right. We know that Bill Gates has banned Apple products from his home. I don’t blame him because Apple has always been at the forefront of design and technology leaving Billy Boy’s offerings look very amateurish…
Dr. Lee Wei Ling
Never heard of that name, Dr Lee Wei Ling? Don’t recall it off hand? Same here until I read the following article. My guess is that most Singaporeans would recognise that name but many Malaysians will not. But then Dr…
The Hurstville Chinese Chess Group
I like Chinese Chess or Xiangqi as it is known in Chinese. I have played the game ever since I was a kid and I have taught the game to my kids. Some time ago, I began visiting Hurstville Square…
WordPress sites hacked – not !!!!!
So, here I was on a lazy Sunday afternoon catching on some reading and my eye caught this headline.. “Active malware campaign uses thousands of WordPress sites to infect visitors” YIKES!!! Boy, was I worried when I read it My…
The Ignobel Prize 2015
Ever since I heard of the Ignobel Prize(pronounced as ignoble), many years ago, from Dr Karl Kruszelnicki on TripleJ, I have always kept a lookout for the annual award winners. Huh? (yes, research in the word “huh” won an Ignobel…
Vacheron Constantin Reference 57260
I have been a big fan of watches ever since i was a kid. I recall saving up my pocket money to buy my first watch, a Timex. It is now long gone but not forgotten. It was a big…
SYNful Knock – Analysis by FireEye
This is an analysis of SYNful Knock by the people who discovered it – Mandiant/FireEye. From my reading of the article, it seems that the router implant was handcrafted on a router-by-router basis. Also, the original attack seems to require…
Do you have SYNful Knock installed?
Cisco has provided a method of determining if your router has the SYNful Knock router implant. ========================================================= http://blogs.cisco.com/security/offline-analysis-of-ios-image-integrity Cisco Blog > Security Offline Analysis of IOS Image Integrity Vafa Izadinia | February 23, 2012 at 1:01 pm PST Forensic…
Cisco’s response to SYNful Knock
This is Cisco’s offical response to SYNful Knock. ============================================== https://blogs.cisco.com/security/synful-knock Cisco Blog > Security SYNful Knock: Detecting and Mitigating Cisco IOS Software Attacks Omar Santos | September 15, 2015 at 12:06 am PST Historically, threat actors have targeted network devices…