Monthly Archives: October 2011

Potential Security Issue With iPhone App

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I recently decided to purchase an app from the iPhone app store. I do not do this often but I believe that this app would be extremely useful.

The app I decided to download was SSH Term Pro. As the name suggests this is a SSH terminal app for the iPhone and iPad. Of course this makes it extremely easy to manage your server on the move. The application allows you to add unlimited amount of servers details so you can quickly and easily connect up to a server that you manage. The application also allows you to lock it down so that you can only access the application fully once you have entered a password that you had set up.

Unfortunately on investigation everything is not as good as I had hoped: Continue reading →

Security Implications With iPhone’s Siri Feature

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Recently Apple released the iPhone 4s with IOS5. One of the more exciting features that came from this is the Siri feature. Siri enables you to give your phone voice commands to carry out certain tasks and is very intelligent in that it understand context etc.

Unfortunately however it appears that Apple have opened up some security implications with this feature. Continue reading →

How A Path Ping Works.

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Introduction

Every now and then you may find that you have a problem with your connection. If you are a webmaster you may on occasion have issues with your website not being accessible or being slow.

On all of these scenario’s there is a very good windows utility that you can use to help track down where the problem lies.

The tool in question is a pathping. Continue reading →