Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Symantec's MessageLabs says the assumption most web-based malware originates from recently created, temporary, trashy adult sites is becoming an old-fashioned notion. Modern hackers are focusing on well-established, trusted websites they can compromise-sites users trust every day of the week.
According to data collected last week, 84.6 percent of website domains blocked ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Rapidly rising cyber crime and the growing prospect of the Internet being used as a medium for terrorist attacks pose a major challenge for IT security. Cryptography is central to this challenge, since it underpins privacy, confidentiality, and identity, which together provide the fabric for e-commerce and secure communications. Cryptography ...
Posted in Coding, Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
New features in 6.2:
The I/O pipeline now uses read-ahead buffering, which improves read performance especially on solid-state drives, typically by 30-50%. (Windows)
Improvements, bug fixes, and security enhancements:
The boot loader now supports motherboards with BIOSes that reserve large amounts ...
Posted in Internet, Linux, Privacy, Security, Software, Windows | No Comments
Monday, April 27th, 2009
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
Posted in Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Software, Windows | No Comments
Friday, April 24th, 2009
Mark Larson, the Google Chrome Project Manager, has posted an advisory on the Google Chrome Releases blog advising of a high risk vulnerability in the Chrome web browser. The cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability is caused by an error in handling URLs in the ChromeHTML URI handler, allowing an attacker to ...
Posted in Internet, Security, Software | No Comments
