See the FTC page on Tech Support Scams: In a recent twist, scam artists are using the phone to try to break into your computer. They call, claiming to be computer techs associated with well-known companies like Microsoft. They say that they’ve detected viruses or other malware on your computer to trick you into giving…
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port 5060 is normally assigned to SIP traffic. It might or might not be used for SIP however. A simple nmap scan to this destination should probably reveal much more, for example here's an output from a OS fingerprint nmap scan to a voip adapterSome implementations of SIP TLS appear to use port 5061 by default, but…
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This is a very bad idea, but yes, various aggregators do exactly this. One of the few upsides of the new Open Banking and PSD2 regulations will mean aggregators are no longer going to need this sort of nonsense, as banks will provide APIs to share data. It does present a huge challenge around understanding where data…
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I think the most important part of this comic (XKCD #936), even if it were to get the math wrong (which it didn't), is visually emphasizing that there are two equally important aspects to selecting a strong password (or actually, a password policy, in general): Difficulty to guess Difficulty to remember Or, in other…
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TL;DR: Shortened links are not safe at all, and have never been. https://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=bit.ly shows the following:TL;DR: Shortened links are not safe at all, and have never been. https://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=bit.ly shows the…
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Just came by this very recent blog post by Lenny Zeltser which is pretty much right on the money 6 Free Tools for analyzing Malicious PDF Files http://blog.zeltser.com/post/5360563894/tools-for-malicious-pdf-analysis The tools he mentions are:PDF Tools suite by Didier Stevens PDF Stream Dumper Jsunpack-n MalObjClass…
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It all comes down to the credentials that that PHP code is running with on the server. If the apache2 process running that PHP code is running as www-root, the damage that this script can do goes to the extent of what www-root can access, which would typically mean all of the /var/www/ folder. To better understand the…
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So it's a bit weird to wait for a promise to resolve your error. The "waiting" happens within that aync function, not your initial js function. consider this example function resolveAfter2Seconds() { return new Promise(resolve => { setTimeout(() => { resolve('2 seconds'); }, 2000); }); } function…
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This issue seems to be a mix of datatype granularity/accuracy and the source of the values. First of all, DATETIME is only accurate/granular to every 3 milliseconds. Hence, converting from a more precise datatype such as DATETIMEOFFSET or DATETIME2 won't just round up or down to the nearest millisecond, it could be 2…
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The reason for getting the error “cannot read property of null” is typo mistake. In your case, it was a simple typo error: the ID value is cAsE-sEnSiTiVe. alert('called' + document.getElementById("thepage:theform:atextId").value); // ^ This P was capitalized Always make sure you're matching the case for your Id…
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BULK INSERT can be a minimally logged operation (depending on various parameters like indexes, constraints on the tables, recovery model of the database, etc). In the case of BULK INSERT, only extent allocations are logged instead of the actual data being inserted. This will provide much better performance than…
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