Facebook scam: Privacy Notice and Going Public

I’m seeing this one do the rounds at the moment, even via some IT Professions. Relates to UCC 1-103 1-308 and Facebook being floated on the stock market, “going public“.

iOS 5.1.1 Security Update

Apple have just release a minor update to iOS 5.
Labelled iOS 5.1.1, as you’d expect from a least significant change, not a lot will change.

Google Update Chrome. Again.

Well, dunno about you but this is really bugging me now. Build 1025.152 roles across the ether.
Details here.

Anonymous OS - you'd be crazy to trust it

Reblogged from Naked Security:

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Proceed with caution if you’re thinking of downloading and installing Anonymous OS, the purported new operating system from the Anonymous collective.

More than 20,000 people may have downloaded the Ubuntu Linux image full of hacking tools – but how do they know what the code really does?

When I first heard about Anonymous OS a couple of days ago, I instantly asked myself why would anyone want to put their trust in a piece of unknown software, written by unknown people, promoted on an Anonymous Tumblr webpage that you don’t know is safe or not?

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Download an OS from a Hacker Collective? Hmm…

Anatomy of an Attack comes to Wellington, New Zealand

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Are you nervous of signing up for “technical” and “educational” sessions promised by software vendors? You should be. They’re often run by sales guys, and they end up being neither technical nor educational.

Sophos’s Anatomy of an Attack seminars are different.

They’re not about products; they’re about the threat.

They’re not about showing off Sophos’s technology; they’re about teaching you to think like the Bad Guys.

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One day I hope to make it to this event and many others like it myself.