Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
As individuals and organizations digitize more data, they become more susceptible to major data breaches. Though convenient, inexpensive USB flash memory sticks and other portable storage devices certainly don't help the cause, because workers use them transport databases and other confidential information. On top of the real danger of misused ...
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Saturday, May 25th, 2013
As more hardware vendors seek to implement the new NIST 800-155 specification that was designed to make the start-up BIOS firmware on our PCs and laptops more secure, they may need to rethink the security assumptions upon which the standard depends. A trio of researchers from The MITRE Corp. say ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Ubuntu for Android
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
This is the first feature-complete mobile version of NoScript. In other words, it provides all the major security features of its desktop counterpart which make sense on a mobile device.
http://hackademix.net/2011/10/15/noscript-for-mobile-is-complete/
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Researchers have discovered what is believed to be the first in-the-wild rootkit that targets BIOS, the built-in software responsible for booting up a computer and managing communication between the machine and its attached devices.
The discovery of Mebromi is notable not because any widespread infections are anticipated – the complexity of ...
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