Umbrellas have been around for thousands of years, So why is it so hard to find a decent one that doesn’t flip inside-out, if a big wind comes along. Well, WSJ is full of such stories lately and the new Umbrella designs are making some big news.
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The Anti Virus programs are supposed to protect you, but that’s not what happened to countless Windows users on Wednesday. McAfee added detection for variants of the W32/Wecorl.a family of Malware to DAT file 5958 on 21st April 2010. This detection caused a false positive that flagged the svchost.exe Windows system file as malicious.
India has a tax paying population of 31.5 million and the number is supposed to increase significantly in the coming years. Looking at the number, there is no doubt about the similar phishing attacks happening in future and that’s obvious. All we need is Security awareness about the online scams and attention to our online identities.
Can a screensaver be exploited to gain access on your linux gnome? Strangely Yes. This vulnerability applies to Ubuntu 9.10 and the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
This short blog gives an overview on how Security in SAP BW, Enterprise Portal and SAP HR is different from SAP R/3 Security.
All spool requests created after 2009/12/23 with deletion date exceeding 2010/01/01 are wrongly Y2K’ed as 2099/12/31 or 2100/01/01 regardless of their retention period specified during creation. These spool requests will not be deleted if the spool reorg job RSPO0041 or RSPO1041 is executed with a variant that selects requests according to their deletion data, and [...]
PortQry is a TCP/IP connectivity testing and troubleshooting utility that is included with the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Support Tools. This utility reports the port status of target TCP and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports on a local computer or on a remote computer.
This blog lists some of the most important and highly recommended SAP Security Notes. Please consult with a security expert or a basis specialist before implementing these security notes.
A new user interface for monitoring operating system environment has been introduced by SAP, in my opinion it’s way better than ST06 or OS07
Wow, another fantastic year is about to over and it’s the festive season again. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy holiday and a good 2010. This blog post is dedicated to my favorite flash authoring application Swish Max3 and miniMax3. If you are looking for some great templates and [...]
If you have firefox and xulrunner installed on Linux ubuntu, now is the time to update the packages. Checkout the insights on the vulnerability and recommendations to patch your system.
Given are a few guidelines for an effective SAP Portal implementation. Stay tuned for the amudee.com security series, a lot more to come..
During an SAP Portal Security review, I came across a scenario where HTTPOnly flag in session cookie was not set. Please checkout the recommendation given in this short blog.
In my earlier blog, I had promised to cover some of the most critical security issues that you may face sooner or later. So here are some pointers for you to re-evaluate your SAP Portal implementation and fix the significant issues before someone else breaks-in. Here is a POC with some snapshots.
In this series of blogs, I will be focusing more on the core SAP security, Portal, Netweaver and some other topics like XSS, So keep watching the space.
I recently came across a forged twitter website which is currently active and may cause severe damage to your online identity and privacy. This kind of attack is conducted for the purposes of information or identity theft.
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Response to Bill and Jim’s Open letter
By Amol Bharti on March 14, 2010
Amol Bharti’s response to a blog post “Open letter to SAP Customers from SAP’s Co-CEOS Jim Hagemann Snabe and Bill McDermott”
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