Always be on your toes While we are used to receiving scam attempts pretending to be from banks, online shops, credit…
Tag: Pieter Arntz
Explained: False positives
What are false positives? False positive, which is sometimes written as f/p, is an expression commonly used in cybersecurity to denote…
Facebook worries: I didn’t post that
It is my assumption that most Facebook users don’t look at their own profile often. With your own profile, I mean…
Malware vaccination tricks: blue pills or red pills
First, let me explain what I mean by malware vaccination tricks. Most of you will have heard about some of these….
Explained: digital forensics
What is it? Digital forensics is a modern day field of forensic science, which deals with the recovery and investigation of…
Explained: user agent
If you are the kind of person that uses different browsers or different devices to access websites, you may have noticed…
Explained: security certificates
As a result of my PowerShell series [1],[2],[3], where I used the handling of certificates as an example, mainly because I…
Learning PowerShell: basic programs
In the previous posts we have looked at some elementary PowerShell concepts and we have constructed some basic commands to export…
Learning PowerShell: some basic commands
My first Powershell script The first PowerShell script I wrote (see below) was a quick fix to remove certificates from the…
Fireball arrests made
Following some arrests in China, we may see a decrease in the amount of adware and adfraud hailing from the Rafotech…