Saturday, January 24th, 2009
We should all be using cable locks to secure our laptops when we have to leave them in a static location for an extended period of time, but do you always take the cable lock with you when you throw your laptop in your bag and leave? Or does the ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Mozilla Labs, the research arm of Mozilla Corp., wants 1% of Firefox users to allow it to watch how they use the browser -- and the Web in general.
"We need to know how people are using our products and using the Web," said Aza Raskin, the head of user ...
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
The myth that to delete data really securely from a hard disk you have to overwrite it many times, using different patterns, has persisted for decades, despite the fact that even firms specialising in data recovery, openly admit that if a hard disk is overwritten with zeros just once, all ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Many popular Windows encryption programs that hide files inside mounted volumes could be fatally compromised by a new type of attack uncovered by a German researcher.
According to a paper published by Bern Roellgen, who also works for encryption software outfit PMC Ciphers, such OTFE (on-the-fly-encryption) programs typically pass the password ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
By now, most of us are aware of the potential privacy risks posed by Web cookies. But according to a new paper published by security consultancy iSec Partners, traditional browser-based cookies aren't the only technology used to store user data anymore. A number of browser plug-ins offer similar capabilities -- ...
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