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This article completes the previous article about writing x86 assembly code in Visual Studio. Therein, I will show you how to extend the previous knowledge and give you a head start on how to write x64 assembler code instead. Continue reading “Introduction to writing x64 assembly in Visual Studio”
So, has your company started following you to the toilet as well? It seems the idea of “testing on the toilet”, where code snippets and sometimes code testing techniques are printed and attached on the toilet walls, was started by Google (please correct me if I am wrong).
I was surprised the other day to enter the toilet, only to find those one pagers with code testing techniques attached above the urinary gutters!
It is one thing to want your employees to be productive and another thing to follow them to the toilet where they hope to have a moment of peace and quiet while they relief themselves!
What about number two you ask? Well, they follow you inside as well:
Personally, I find that unacceptable. Instead, put some jokes, something a bit lighter and funny! 🙂
Do you agree?
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I had the chance to go to Microsoft Store and check out the new Surface Book. This is the video review below:
I personally was not wowed about it. Here are my comments:
I also shot another video showing the new stylus:
What is hard to capture in the video is how it feels when using the stylus. Each stylus tip gives you a different feel / drag on the screen. That’s pretty nice!
In conclusion, and in my opinion, the Surface Book does not deserve to be called “The Ultimate Laptop”, at least not yet.
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In a previous post, I spoke about the new Windows 10 update coming to Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.
With operating systems prior to Windows 10, you may noticed a new tray icon showing up like this:
This icon is used to update to Windows 10:
If you don’t want to update just yet, then just follow the steps below to remove the tray icon.
The tray icon will remain and it can be annoying for some people, therefore to remove it, you can use various methods as described in these articles #1 and #2.
To make things simple, you may use the “Task Scheduler” and navigate to “Task Scheduler Library\Microsoft\Windows\Setup\gwx” as shown in the screenshot below and then delete the two entries there:
As indicated in this article, you can also remove the KB3035583 from the installed updates lists.
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In a previous post, I explained about how Yahoo Mail accounts can be compromised by phishing.
In this blog post, I am going to be brief and just expose the phishing information and hosts used.
Lots of red flags here, just by looking at the email:
Click on the sender to reveal the actual email address:
Now we can see that the real sender is “jcwod@aol.com”. It could be this is the real malicious user or not, but anyway.
When I search for this email on Facebook, I found this profile:
Which in reality could be nothing.
In step one, the malicious email sender invited you to click on an address to fix the aforementioned “problem”.
Do not click, instead, hover the mouse over the link and look at your status bar. You will see something like this:
This is a shortened address. In this case, it is used to hide the malicious web address. Let us use the GetLinkInfo.com to reveal the real address:
The address is, obviously, not related to Yahoo! It is: “http://tuckertownforge.com/perfected01/index.html”.
I don’t advise you to go to that address, there could be a browser exploit or equally the phishing site.
The phishing site is supposed to look like Yahoo mail:
DO NOT enter your user name and password on that FAKE SITE!
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Today Tim Cook and other Apple figures presented the “Apple Special Event – September 9, 2015”
The annoucements were in the following order: Continue reading “Takeaways from the Apple Special Event – September 9, 2015”
Today Apple announced to all new Apple TV. These are the important new features.
Photo gallery at the end of the post.
The Apple TV will be available in late October. Continue reading “Announcing the new Apple TV – 2015”
Today Apple announced to all new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. These are the important new features.
Photo gallery at the end of the post.
By the way, iPhone 6s, when read, it sounds like: “iPhone success”. Continue reading “Announcing the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus”
Today Apple announced to all new iPad Pro. These are the important new features.
Photo gallery at the end of the post.
The iPad Pro will be available in November. Continue reading “Announcing the new iPad Pro – 2015”
Hi,
If you have been using Windows 7 and up, you may noticed a new tray icon showing up like this:
And after you click it you will see a tray icon popup menu like this:
If you click on either “Get Windows 10” then a dialog like this will pop up: Continue reading “Windows 10 is coming soon!”
I have the Nexus 7 (2013) that is sitting around and not being used too much since I got an iPad Air 2 a few month ago. I figured why not use the Android tablet for security related work such as application protocol auditing and debugging android apps.
After researching, I discovered the Mobizen software. I tried it on my rooted Nexus 7 and it worked nicely for what I needed. In this blog post I am going to review this software and demonstrate some of its capabilities!
Let’s get started! Continue reading “How to remote control your Android phone or tablet”
In a previous article, How your Yahoo! Mail account can be hacked with phishing – A real life example, I mentioned how Yahoo email phishing can take place. Phishing can take place with any website especially where hackers have a chance to steal money.
I keep receiving PayPal.com phishing emails. The sender pretends to be from PayPal and asks me to take some action and click a link to remedy the situation: “Warning! Your PayPal account was limited!” Continue reading “PayPal account phishing”
Security Reactions is a wonderful site that contains carefully selected animated GIF files that describe certain scenarios faced by security engineers and pentesters.
Let me give you a taste of it:
The day the pentest report is due
Today I am going to reveal to you a magic card trick that I have been using since a long time ago. I don’t remember where and how I learned this trick, most likely from a magic book.
This trick is really nice and easy to perform. Just make sure you do not perform it more than once or twice (at most) in the same setting, otherwise the participants will start to figure it out. Continue reading “The “21 Cards Magic Trick” revealed!”
Hello,
Today I met Dan Green, the founder of TheMortgageReports.com at Starbucks. It was fun to see him blogging.
Here’s a short bio from Dan’s blog:
Dan Green is a mortgage market expert, providing over 10 years of direct-to-consumer advice. You can also connect with Dan on Twitter and on Google+
I kind of interviewed him about how he started his blog and I took some advise from him about blogging and how to succeed.
Continue reading “A brief interview with Dan Green from TheMortgageReports.com”
