“Better Than Nothing” Starlink-Beta started across the US & Canada Starlink: amazing but and also a bit “crazy” “On 15 October 2019, the United States Federal Communications Commission submitted filings to the International Telecommunication Union on SpaceX’s behalf to […]
SecurityLab, [14.07.20 15:35] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has unveiled a new database demonstrating how and where us law enforcement agencies use tracking technologies. A map of the use of tracking technologies in the United States is presented (https://www.securitylab.ru/news/510018.php) SecurityLab, […]
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of the iceberg) what if – instead of security – Google […]
second take on trying to get a xmpp server (OpenFire, Java) client (Pidgin, C (C#, Perl, Python, Tcl are used for plugins)) up and running. at least this time with partial luck (was able to login via pidgin) but it […]
this age of mass surveillance… … who is observing “the observers”? probably THE most important film, that every school kid (of the age of 16) should have seen (highly recommend to cut out the violent scenes) 1984 mass surveillance: for […]
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ hm…. let me think where one has seen this before: TELEGRAM! Zoom’s service is “not suited for secrets” “The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encryption scheme, that there is a vulnerability […]
Update: 2021-02 “A statement from the German Federal Criminal Police Office about their participation in Operation Ladybird said prosecutors seized 17 servers in Germany that acted as Emotet controllers.” and many bars of gold and cash were seized in Ukraine… […]
what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]
Mail Server (MTA) Market share: Server Type Number of Servers Percent Exim 507,200 57.13% Postfix 308,036 34.70% Sendmail 34,948 3.94% MailEnable 18,921 2.13% MDaemon 7,464 0.84% Microsoft 4,706 0.53% IMail 1,375 0.15% CommuniGate Pro 1,263 0.14% XMail 783 0.09% Qmail […]
TLS v1.1 is labeled insecure, TLS v1.2 is current, TLS v1.3 is about to become current. the (e)mail system from 1972 (slightly modified) is still the #1 communication channel, if one believes one’s surveys. The current approved version of TLS […]
Warum VoIP? Viele Anbieter von LTE z.B. bieten gar keine Festnetz-Telefonie an, sondern nur Internet. (das zum Teil (nicht günstiger) aber schneller (und schnurloser via Handy-Netz) als die Telekom (4G/LTE/UMTS)). D.h. man braucht dann noch einen weiteren Anbieter der die […]
don’t be evil “Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. […]
Pwn2Own 2020: opening a pdf can be enough to compromise system! https://youtu.be/u1udr7j9MQA?t=359 thank you ccc you are doing a lovely work – make this planet more interesting by creativity and more informed about security 🙂 keep it up 🙂 https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/gpn/gpn19/h264-hd/gpn19-45-eng-BADPDF_-_Stealing_Windows_Credentials_via_PDF_Files_hd.mp4 […]
What is the problem? Microsoft just came up with another closed standard file format… Microsoft’s proprietary TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format) often named winmail.dat or win.dat, and has a MIME type of Application/MS-TNEF is a proprietary email attachment format used […]
google’s security lab “project zero“ has made itself a name. (you can subscribe to their rss feed with thunderbird.) Posted by Ben Hawkes, Project Zero (team lead) (2019-05-15) Project Zero’s team mission is to “make zero-day hard”, i.e. to make […]
one week downtime – they got backups and are not planing on paying the ransome. “Norwegian oil and gas and metallurgical Corporation Norsk Hydro was hit by the encoder LockerGoga — to stop the spread of malware, IT-specialists had to […]
RSS-Feeds are files.xml, which are auto-generated by CMS like WordPress. It can be subscribed to with an RSS-Client Software. Thunderbird (the Mail program) for example (tested on version 60.6.4 and above) has a pretty convenient functionality to stay up to […]
this mail looks so convincing… i bet it gets a high “return” rate. mail is fundamentally broken system – that’s why Google keeps cranking up requirements to send mail to Google and one day it will probably deny ALL […]
Firefox: einfach auf die Links klicken, dann auf “Add” to Firefox… und nochmal mit “OK” bestätigen. Neue Rechtschreibung: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/german-dictionary/ Alte Rechtschreibung: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/german-dictionary-de_de-for-sp/ … jetzt kann man(n)/Frau auf jeden beliebigen Text eines Formulares R-Click und … sich nie wieder vertippen X-D […]
please see: https://dwaves.de/2019/01/08/fail2ban-manually-ban-and-unban-ip/
you COULD use imapsync actually… but it failed me with some obscure error. rsync is NOT a good idea… because dovecot/thunderbird/icedove does not rebuild index files/folder structure. the solution is actually simple: use thunderbird/icedove your mail client! create same mail […]
check the logs: i can highly recommend a colorful log output: yum install ccze; # rpm based apt install ccze; # apt based and this script that will “follow” all changes to all logfiles on your system… vim /scripts/mon_all_logs.sh #!/bin/bash […]
“server has disconnected The server may have gone down or there may be a network problem” is shown – but the mail is send anyway. strange enough: the error message is misleading – this is not a server problem – […]
THERE IS NO PGP ATTACK VECTOR! PGP IS SANE! the problem is the mail client: so mail clients SHOULD disable loading of external or embedded content for encrypted mails. “Email clients are usually configured to automatically decrypt the content of […]
on the blog of the Enigmail Developers, it reads like this: “The Mozilla developers have been and still are actively working on removing old code from their code base. This affects not only Thunderbird itself, but also add-ons. While it […]
When you reserve a new domain – and the registrar asks you for your (personal?) mail to be published in the whois database. You better give it a mail address designated for spam. I just received a spam letter at […]
first of all – thanks for this cool mail client 🙂 i really love icedove / thunderbird. A very cool feature that i am missing – it’s nice that imap can syn mail accounts – and i really love that […]
the mail system is a very broken and corrupted system. sending-addresses can be forged – spam from all over the world is flooding the mailboxes – viruses get attached… nobody trusts attachments anymore. it’s a completely newly C++ developed mailserver […]
exim is one of the most used MTAs on mail-enabled servers on the internet and default on Debian/Ubuntu(?). Original author(s) Philip Hazel (started 1995) Developer(s) The Exim Maintainers Thus you can expect hackers, crackers and NSA to target it. Exim […]
sending a mail with fake “from:” to existing.com telnet existing.com 25 Trying 78.46.249.71… Connected to existing.com. Escape character is ‘^]’. 220 existing.com ESMTP Exim 4.84_2 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:41:29 +0200 EHLO SMTP.example.net 250-existing.com Hello hsi-kbw-5-158-158-169.hsi19.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de [5.158.158.169] 250-SIZE 52428800 250-8BITMIME […]