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Everyone can join Facebook - not
2007-09-29 14:49:40
I was just reading the Facebook "about" page, and noticed this link: Sign Up - Everyone can join. I ...


Fraudsters offer “tax refunds”
2007-09-29 13:51:50
I run into new phish email every day - not because of any flaws in my junk mail filters, but ...


news.announce.newusers fate under discussion
2007-09-28 16:58:29
The news.newusers.questions (nnq) moderation board recently posted a request for discussion regarding the future of the newsgroup news.announce.newusers...


Get ready for October's reboot day
2007-10-04 15:18:42
Four critical and three important updates are due from Microsoft® next Tuesday (9 Oct 2007). For details, check out Microsoft's ...
Read more: ready , October

The smoke alarm that unplugs the fire
2007-10-04 14:43:53
I have chosen my favourite between the stuff I saw at the Finnsec trade show this week. The winner is… ...
Read more: alarm

Bloggers as paid experts - Techdirt Insight
2007-10-03 16:08:34
I was recently approached by the Techdirt Insight community, a marketplace where qualifying bloggers compete in providing insight and analysis ...


New OH2AQ officers
2007-10-02 20:13:57
The executive committee of the Radio Club of Elisa yesterday found that vice chairman Antti Salmenlinna, OH2MNI, should ...
Read more: officers

Stockmann credit cards to be replaced by Nordea MasterCards
2007-09-30 21:52:12
You will soon lose your Stockmann credit card. So will I.
Read more: Nordea

Police investigate case of 80 000 user names and password hashes made public
2007-10-15 17:06:11
Finland's National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is leading an international police inquiry into the case of some 80 000 user names and ...
Read more: Police

Ministry keeps erroneous stats online, ignores feedback
2007-10-12 20:57:55
A couple of days ago I wrote about network security incidents going through the roof. The information I quoted was accurate. ...
Read more: Ministry , keeps , online

ICT white-collar strike imminent in Finland?
2007-10-12 08:42:50
The collective bargaining over the wage solution of Finland 's ICT sector, between the Union of Salaried Employees (TU) ...
Read more: strike

Minister council to target computer crime
2007-10-10 14:44:19
Finland's council of ministers in charge of preparing an internal security program for the years 2008-2011 have today decided to ...
Read more: Minister , crime

Microsoft's October updates are out
2007-10-09 15:45:22
There are four critical and two important security updates . Details are available on the Microsoft web site. Additionally, three ...
Read more: October

Patch available for RealPlayer ActiveX vulnerability
2007-10-20 12:00:15
Yesterday I wrote about an arbitrary-code vulnerability in RealPlayer being exploited. RealNetworks has now issued a patch that apparently remedies ...
Read more: Patch , available

Filtering name resolution using a hosts file
2007-10-19 13:49:07
The Internet Protocol suite includes a useful configuration file named hosts. It is one of the methods your computer ...
Read more: Filtering

New Firefox version fixes vulnerabilities - Thunderbird and Seamonkey to follow
2007-10-19 11:01:46
The Mozilla Foundation has released version  2.0.0.8 of popular web browser Firefox . Upgrading to the new version is important, as it ...
Read more: vulnerabilities , Thunderbird

New RealPlayer vulnerability being exploited
2007-10-19 09:56:23
Versions 10 and 11 of RealPlayer apparently are prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability that already is exploited remotely. The ...


Password publisher suspect detained
2007-10-18 11:31:38
As Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) investigate last week’s publication of almost 80 000 illicitly obtained logon credentials, ...
Read more: Password , suspect

Consumer watchdog wants parking legislation
2007-10-23 09:46:45
Finland’s consumer agency is asking (link in Finnish) the ministry of justice to legislate the private parking control sector - companies ...
Read more: Consumer , wants

Formula 1 loads FICIX to the verge of 20 Gbps
2007-10-23 08:24:50
Maybe you have noticed how quiet the streets tend to become when users gather in front of their TV sets ...
Read more: Formula

How your gun permit applications are considered
2007-10-21 05:30:01
Finland’s interior ministry has produced a 95-page set of rules for local police units to follow when processing gun permit ...


Call codes used by Finland’s EMS and fire services
2007-10-29 18:09:34
After several years of central reign over Finland ’s emergency response logistics, the same call codes should now be in use almost everywhere in the nation. As a quick web search can confirm, they are by no means secret. However, they do seem to have been available only in Finnish. I am providing this highly unofficial translation [...]


IRC marathon yields report on cybervillains
2007-10-26 16:51:32
Once a small island of technically skilled hobbyist perpetrators attaining little or no real-world earnings, online crime has since become a very lucrative means for professional fraudsters to earn profits that can be cashed out at the local Western Union office. Jason Franklin, Vern Paxson, Adrian Perrig and Stefan Savage recently spent seven months on [...]
Read more: IRC , report

The blog has changed - don’t adjust your monitor :)
2007-10-26 16:50:32
Today blog.anta.net moved from Blogware to Wordpress. I hope you enjoy the new layout. I know I’m happy with the new software, although the move was somewhat forced, with Blogware being, as it seems, moribund. Wordpress is very extendable and tweakable, but keeping with the blog’s topic, I’m going to run the blog in a somewhat [...]
Read more: adjust

Consumer watchdog wants parking legislation
2007-10-23 03:46:00
Finland’s consumer agency is asking (link in Finnish) the ministry of justice to legislate the private parking control sector - companies ...
Read more: Consumer , wants

Formula 1 loads FICIX to the verge of 20 Gbps
2007-10-23 02:24:50
Maybe you have noticed how quiet the streets tend to become when users gather in front of their TV sets ...
Read more: Formula

SecureCRT 5.5.3 is available
2007-11-01 14:16:34
VanDyke Software today released version 5.5.3 of SecureCRT®, their brilliant telnet and SSH client software. This is a bugfix release; in version 5.5.2, the default upload and download directories on the Xmodem/Zmodem page were switched. Share This
Read more: available

New Amazon product lines for Europe
2007-11-01 09:39:41
Just in time for your Christmas shopping, Amazon .co.uk now carries several new product categories - jewellery, watches, shoes, and babies. What? No, sorry, I mean baby products. External links: Jewellery Watches Shoes and accessories (beta!) Baby (beta!) (These links are provided in association with Amazon.co.uk, the Europe an subsidiary of leading online retailer Amazon.com.) Have you bought stuff on Amazon.co.uk or [...]


Heise writer: Leopard firewall broken
2007-10-31 15:53:45
Jürgen Schmidt of Heise has tested the built-in firewall component of Apple’s new Mac OS X version 10.5, also known as Leopard . Although Apple professes that Leopard is “safer by design” and “secure right out of the box”, Mr. Schmidt claims to have found a number of vulnerabilities. Share This


CGEIT grandfathering available for IT governance veterans
2007-10-30 12:55:44
ISACA® is offering the new CGEIT™ certification, intended for professionals charged with satisfying the IT governance needs of an enterprise. The first exam will be held in December 2008. Share This
Read more: available

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