Category Archives: Security

Deleteyouraccount.com to easily get rid off social networking

Deleteyouraccount.com is a very convenient website if you consider deleting your account from one of these social networking sites that are everywhere now. Of course, they all do their best to make it difficult, trying to hide it and discourage you. Here Deleteyouraccount comes to help.

I will still take a few days of thoughts, but I am seriously considering deleting my Linkedin account. I once got invited to it and got trapped.

My private data are certainly useful to Linkedin, but all this stuff has been totally useless to me so far. One of the things I really hate is that it tends to increase the number of contacts artificially even though the relationship is not sincere.

I have a number of “contacts” that I barely know or keep in touch with, whereas I don’t need Linkedin to communicate with the people I truly appreciate.

Less social networking, more human reliationship, more freedom, more privacy : sounds good.

SecurityFocus changing

A big change on Security Focus is going to happen. Except the vulnerability database, most of its content and resources are going to move to Symantec. RIP.

bugmenot.com

I just discovered the BugMeNot service today.

It offers a database of logins shared by the community to login to free websites that require free registration.

This is usually annoying to subscribe to such a website just to download a freeware or read an article, and it often makes people choose unsecured or random logins.

They even provide an extension for Firefox. Thanks to this great website, you are probably going to save a lot of time.

Simulated massive cyber attack filmed by CNN

This video, while “amusing”, is quite interesting :

Though not many details are given, I am quite skeptical about the possibility of such a massive attack.

However, it shows well that security is not just a technical matter. It has many implications in law, politics, economics, and a whole information system must be prepared to that, starting with our leaders.

That would be a HUGE effort for our politicians here in France – if they ever care…

Netios 0.73

Netios 0.73 fixes some bugs and

Complete changelog :

2010-02-10 (0.73) phocean <jc@phocean.net>

2010-02-10 (0.73) phocean <jc@phocean.net>

* remove useless options
* fix various bugs

Check there (tools page) for more details and a download link.

Netios 0.72

Netios 0.72 fixes some bugs with the show_run mode and large config files. I also found some issues concerning the prompt detection, so it should be fixed now.