Jan 17

Dominic White

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Google has started hating me, and I'm not sure why. This is a test you can safely ignore.

Dominic White

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Last modified on 2008-05-28 08:43
Jan 16

Year 2038 Unix Time Overflow

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Heard of the year 2038 unix clock overflow bug? The 30th preversary is at 3am this Saturday. If any of your banks are using 32-bit Unix systems to do 30 year home loan calculation you may soon hear about this.

singe@platform:~$ uname -a
Linux platform 2.6.15-27-server #1 SMP Fri Dec 8 18:43:54 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
singe@platform:~$ sudo date -u 011903142038.06
Tue Jan 19 03:14:00 UTC 2038
singe@platform:~$ date
Tue Jan 19 05:14:07 SAST 2038
singe@platform:~$ date
Fri Dec 13 22:15:52 SAST 1901

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Last modified on 2008-01-17 12:38
Jan 8

Deloitte Security Survey's 2007

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Deloitte has released its security survey's for 2007. Deloitte usually releases several security survey's broken up by industries (see 2006's survey's). So far the following have been released:

I'm completely biased in publishing any Deloitte information, but I think these are well worth a read.

Posted by Dominic White

Jan 8

Jeremy Clarkson makes Himself an Identity Theft Victim

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After Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame) published his bank details, to prove that identity theft based on the now famous lost British CDs was overblown, he became a victim of identity theft and had 500 pounds fraudulently stolen from his account and deposited to the British Diabetic Association.

While I don't condone the action, it is a bit of a modern day Robin Hood story. Who wants the screen play to "Hackers in Tights"?

Posted by Dominic White

Last modified on 2008-01-08 21:18