Streaming media without the trackers
Often streaming sites are filled with adverts and trackers, and the videos can be problematic or just inconvenient to play in a web browser. It is possible to stream many media sources with a separate … Read more
Posts in Category ‘Security’
DoH and DoT for Vivaldi and other browsers
Recently Mozilla decided their testing of DoH with Cloudflare is now ready for regular users and it can be enabled for those that want it. Are you feeling jealous of your Firefox friends and DNS … Read more
if a GoldBrute BlueKeep[s] probing my R[s]DP, will it be EternalBlue ?
As we seem to be eternally blue about the Windows network access vulnerabilities, and the latest botnet threat, I thought before I take cover I will have a look over the battlefield. Spotting the new … Read more
2018 Anti-Virus comparison
A breakdown of the performance of AntiVirus over the past year, based on the Real World Protection Test results from AV-Comparatives The top 5 have been marked in green in each image, and the baseline … Read more
Cyber-Threat Maps
Malware, Hacking and Botnet Visualisation Where is the hacking and viri most popular, and where is it directed ? Check these world maps of virus and hacking activity. https://comparite.ch/ransomwaremap https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/botnet/ http://cybermap.holedge.com https://map.lookingglasscyber.com https://www.virustotal.com/statistics/ https://www.avira.com/en/threats-landscape https://threatmap.bitdefender.com http://cybermap.kaspersky.com … Read more
Droid Tools
Tools for Android This page contains a mix of geeky tools and security scanners that I find useful or essential. There are a few alternative App stores, Linux distros and emulators for a few alternative … Read more
Best free Anti-virus
The best free Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware programs …but don’t just take my word for it Which Security Suite for Windows Provides Sustained Protection? Currently the best Free AV are; Avira https://www.avira.com/en/download/product/avira-free-antivirus Bitdefender https://www.bitdefender.co.uk/solutions/free.html Kaspersky https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/free-antivirus Avast https://www.avast.com (Avast can break website … Read more
OpenSSL and manual updating of software
26th September 2016 – Current versions: 0.9.8zh – 1.0.2j – 1.1.0b https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160926.txt https://www.openssl.org/news/newslog.html OpenSSL just got another major update, and now the pre-compiled binaries for Windows are available fromhttps://www.openssl.org/community/binaries.html Many common programs use the standard DLLs … Read more
Security Now
April 8, 2014 #450: How the Heartbleeds http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/twit.cachefly.net/audio/sn/sn0450/sn0450.mp3 http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0450/sn0450_h264b_640x368_256.mp4 The end of updates for Windows XP, AnyDVD, the Heart Bleed Bug, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at http://twit.tv/sn Snowden’s SXSW appearance
Web-Mail and Email
Accessing your Email via a web page is a convenience not the recommended way to do it. Using a web browser is usually less secure. Webmail settings/configuration For use in a normal/standard email program/client/phone app. … Read more
