Finally, twitter introduces two-factor authentication. After several successful account-takeovers, Twitter has decided to take action in order to become more secure. It was about time. How Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication works Twitter calls this “Login Verification”. Unlike other companies / websites, twitter does not offer a two-factor authentication app or token. Instead, they use cell phones [...]
CarLog is available on GooglePlay
I know, this isn’t really new and I should have written this a long time ago, when I first published CarLog on GooglePlay, but well, better late than never. So here we go: my Android-App CarLog is available on GooglePlay now! CarLog is a small and simple Android-App which can help you keeping an eye [...]
Server-downtime
The server is now back online after giving me slight trouble on Friday night. I want to apologize for the server-downtime and for any inconvenience it may have caused, but it should be fixed now. I used the downtime to perform some overdue updates on several packages and the operating system itself. Everything is back [...]
Amazon’s Kindle Library Lending Program and Prime
Amazon‘s Kindle library lending program is a great idea. I am very sure that most kindle users were happy when they heard about it for the first time. But then, amazon said “only for Prime-users”. Okay, so far no problem, I am a prime-user. The amazon prime program is a nice thing, too. I pay [...]
Computer Case Modding
Usually, I don’t do this case modding stuff. This is usually something I leave for the kiddies, while my casings have to remain functional and like computers always were. I don’t really need my computer to look like transformer robot or something similar. Actually, it would give me the creeps, and I’d always wonder when [...]
Alleged XSS-Vulnerability in WordPress a Fake
On Wednesday, October 24th 2012, this report was sent to the BugTraq-Mailinglist, describing an alleged XSS-vulnerability in WordPress, presumably in all versions of the wide-spread blogging software. What’s the fuss about? As I run this blog using WordPress myself, I am of course very interested in keeping my blog secure, so I took my time to [...]
Exim DKIM DNS Decoding Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
The widely used opensource email-server Exim has been reported to be vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the DKIM DNS Decoding routines. An updated version of Exim, which addresses this issue is already available. As it fixes only this specific issue, the new version-number is 4.80.1. According to the Author, Phil Pennock, to avoid confusion, there [...]
A Joke becomes Reality: Windows 8 Login with XBox Live credentials
A few months back, when I first learned that the UI of the XBox 360, or something quite similar to it, will become the new UI of Windows 8, I made a joke: I said “ok, and then Microsoft wants us to login with our gamer-tags”. You have to know that I do own an [...]
Adam Gowdiak develops private fix for critical Java Sandbox Bug
Ok, I just read something that drives me total furious, and right into insanity. Oracle, in its boundless arrogance, does it again. From the headline, you might have gotten the idea, what I am talking about. Adam Gowdiak, a security researcher, decided to take the Issue 50 into his own hands after Oracle, in its [...]
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