Victor's Blog about the Web, Security and Life

The web for me is a hobby where standards and best practices are daily bread. Security is a concern that everybody must be aware of its details for IT in general, and the web in particular, to be a safer place. My life, on the other hand, is that of a regular Lebanese citizen where politics and social issues are discussed on a daily basis. I hope you enjoy reading my blog and make sure to drop me a comment about any topic you find interesting.

Category: Security

lebanese-forces.com: The Attack Was Not From Hezbollah!

Two days ago, on Sunday night, Roland, a friend of mine, called me and said that the lebanese-forces.com website was under a heavy denial of service attack and that they were receiving emails from Hezbollah advertising the attack and asking them to shut down the website. My natural reply to his...

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Google Adwords Phishing Emails

This is just an alert about emails that are being sent to many people that I know regarding Billing Information for Google Adwords. The email is asking people to visit a website that looks exactly like the Google Adwords website and asks visitors to login and update their credit card...

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Domain Name Locking

It has come to my attention lately that many hosting companies in Lebanon do not implement the domain locking policy that was recommended by ICANN back in 2004. In this article, I will simply state what ICANN (Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers) has to say about this topic and...

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Bird Flu Abuse: A Broken Trust Chain Problem

As the bird flu problem gets closer and closer to Lebanon, I have been informed of some people making use of the safeless state that people are going through to achieve success in other illegal actions such as theft, drug abuse, rapes, etc. This message is of two parts: The first is...

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How Does the Visual Code work?

Another interesting question that I received was about how the Visual Code protection works? I will try to explain it here in brief for the curious researcher.   (More)

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Is Spamming a Security Breach?

I received some interest emails from readers regarding the relation between Spamming and Security breaches. In summary, some of these emails thought about spamming comments as a security breach related to Denial of Service attacks where the space is "filled" up by bogus messages. I...

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A Nice Try Dangerous for Security Beginners!

Many emails are sent daily claiming that a certain website is another website. This usually occurs the most with Paypal.com (a website that I sometimes use to accept payments). Intruders will send emails holding Paypal logos asking users to verify their account. The link (a normal HTML link)...

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