Category: security

I will admit to not testing the “forced” upgrade aspect of this, but I did download and install the upgraded iSkoot for my Nokia N95 this …

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While it was, admittedly, not very nice of me to hand iSkoot a …

Looks like iSkoot made a mistake with their Nokia S60 client and will make it right. Apparently a non-production version of the S60 client made it to the public web, which sends data in the clear. Other published versions of …

Dan York asked for this. Here’s the tell-tale sign from tcpdump that the user information is in the clear. Obviously, I used a different username than my own here as obscuring my password was difficult:
10:29:56.656220 IP 10.3.2.124.43852 > 69.25.76.54.80: P …

Various people are thinking that Skype Mobile is basically an unbranded iSkoot, which does the same thing in much the same way. Generally speaking, …

Long, long-time followers will know my sordid history with Check Point FireWall-1 and various issues related to network security. …

You want to know what I do at Nokia? Support platforms like these guys. Firewalls, intrusion detection, VPNs. Yup, that’s what I do.

Today, our little corner of Nokia …

When I was 11, which puts me in 6th grade, our school had a couple of Apple ][e’s in the library. There wasn’t any network connectivity to speak of, but I knew …

A friend of mine just sent me the following, which may be of interest to some of you:
The Academy (http://www.theacademy.ca) officially launches its web site today providing instructional videos for the information security community. For the first …

Well that and I generally just don’t care for the sound quality of Bluetooth headsets:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-q-OnUqty0[/video]

If you’re not using it, keep your bluetooth off. Simple as that.