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Mikko from F-Secure made a quick research on the domain name market. They made some searches on Sedo.com and found out that they are reselling domains like chasebank-online.com, citi-bank.com and bankofameriuca.com. According to Mikko and Sedo are more obviously fraudulent domains available,
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I updated my Wordpress installation. I hope everything works fine.

Bruce Schneiers announced in his blog that BT (aka British Telecom) has acquired Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Ok, so far so good. But in a blog comment Carlo Graziani told the “real” storybehind this deal. Verry funny.
Bruce himself voted this comment for “Best blog comment ever.”

Microsoft just published an online passwort checking tool on its website. The password checker can help you to gauge the strength of your password. I think they test the strength based on this rules:

There is a new Helix (Incident Response & Computer Forensics Live CD based on Knoppix) version released. Version 1.8 has a now Andreas Schuster’s PTFinder included an will no longer change JFS information. You can donwload Helix here.
All new features at a glance:

Andreas Schuster wrote in his blog about the new event log format in Vista. He also has a good

There is an additional hands-on training course on computer forensics in Berlin available. More information here.

I saw some interesting articles about the old problem with default passwords on IT systems combined with the new problem that the manufactur published it on the internet. In this case we are speaking about ATM’s. Got cash?