Archives for June 2011

Shecky Tweets for 2011-06-23

June 23, 2011 By Michael Kavka Leave a Comment

RT @helpnetsecurity: #WordPress users endangered by Trojanized plugins – #infosec #
@markrussinovich Will it be available for Nook? in reply to markrussinovich #
@markrussinovich Gotcha, through the O'Reily site, but not the Nook store yet. Thanks. in reply to markrussinovich #

Firefox 5 is out, this is not good.

June 22, 2011 By Michael Kavka Leave a Comment

Mozzila decided to be aggressive with Firefox releases. Not a problem, just keep the old version till add-ons are all compatible. Doesn’t work that way if you want to be secure.

Mozzila announced that Firefox 5 is the security update for Firefox 4. There will be no other updates unless there is a major, and they mean major, security hole. Fine, I have no issues with doing that, keeping people on the latest version, making sure people know that is the way it is. Except for one thing. Only about 80% of the add-ons out there are going to work on Firefox 5.

The issues I have are now pretty simple, but extremely important. They are also why I think Firefox is trying to push itself to extinction. First, Firefox 5 came out today, same day as the announcement about Firefox 4 security updates. Second, one of the add-ons that don’t work in Firefox 5 is for LogMeInRescue, which I use on a very regular basis. I am now forced to use a different browser for supporting clients, because Mozzila decided that to be secure I had to update and break what I need. Not very smart on Mozzila’s part.

This also leads to another issue. People will stop upgrading, just so their add-ons will work. Of course, if they don’t upgrade, they are open to more security problems. Firefox becomes a security threat due to its aggressive upgrade policy. Someone better explain this to the keepers of Firefox.

Shecky Tweets for 2011-06-21

June 21, 2011 By Michael Kavka Leave a Comment

#Apple is at the top of @ThisIsHNN weekly Stack of shame. Guess Apple's security isn't what they thought it was. #
Was United Airlines mysterious "Network Problems" A DDoS attack? I wouldn't be surprised if it was. #
@SecBarbie Thanks for that link. Hope to get to some of the events listed. in reply to SecBarbie #
@rodtrent I thought iOS doesn't support Flash. #
RT @helpnetsecurity: #iCloud search ends with fake AV – #Security #
@kaspersky File not found on that link. #
Virtual crime equals real profit: @kaspersky @e_kaspersky #
Record events with your #iPhone Not much Longer: #Apple #iOS #
Potential Vulnerability status of major ecommerce sites: #infosec #