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Watering hole attack prevention

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 11:00:04 +0000

A watering hole attack is an indirect attack on a victim. Rather than directly attacking the victim’s network, the attacker attacks a web site that the victim’s employees are likely to visit. Then the attacker attacks the victim’s network, via

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Unchecky is another tool to help with staying out of trouble with malware

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:00:52 +0000

I found a mention of a tool called Unchecky as a minor point in a story about something else entirely. Unchecky helps to solve the problem with downloaded programs including a bunch of extra junk you don’t want. I won’t be

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Why every breach is different

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:00:24 +0000

I’ve grown used to being asked what unpatched vulnerability was used in the most recent breach, in an effort to make sure some other company is protected. I appreciate the desire to learn from other companies’ mistakes and not repeat them.

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Time to update Flash again. This is a big one.

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 02:47:36 +0000

There’s an exploit in Flash, on all platforms, being actively exploited in the wild. Adobe rushed out an update. It allows remote code execution, so this one is as bad as it gets. Installing EMET is a potential mitigation against

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