Wherever I May Roam…

Now that the countdown to Flock Browsers’ demise has started, I can’t help but feel sad for its loyal users. What a waste really. They have the right idea, but too few developers that kept on playing catch-up with Firefox, its extensions, Facebook and Twitter. Maybe it’s because of its license – it’s not a [...]

Here’s another funny and creative shit from malware creators. After visiting a certain website, this notice popped up. Curious to what it is, I clicked on the Ok button. At first I said, “Hey! New FF feature!” Looks legit enough, until the site tried to scan my C:\ Drive MY C:\ ‘EFFIN DRIVE Like I [...]

It’s the time of the month where I check the sites and workstations I manage. It’s when I purge the log files (which I review weekly), delete old backup files, run fsck, update my admin scripts, and go through my security checklist. Then I noticed something odd. I can’t seem to login to my blog [...]

The method used by those application is technically called Clickjacking, but my use of the term Facebook Malware or even Facebook Virus is more readily and easily accepted by novice users (read: my mom or my wife) to describe malicious applications bent on using the users account to spread itself and gather detailed (and even [...]

Since moving from cookie to session-based authentication, I’ve been getting permission errors from my PHP5 application (Outage Management System). Notice: session_start() [function.session-start]:ps_files_cleanup_dir: opendir(/var/lib/php5) failed: Permissiondenied (13) in <path> on line <line number> And then there’s the 24 minutes timeout even though my .htaccess’ properly setup and configured. Both of these issues prompted me to dig [...]