Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Gooscan is a tool that automates queries against Google search appliances, but with a twist. These particular queries are designed to find potential vulnerabilities on web pages. Think “cgi scanner” that never communicates directly with the target web server, since all queries are answered by a Google appliance, not by ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
TrueCrypt 6.1, the open source, cross platform disk encryption tool, now supports the encryption of non-system partitions under Windows Vista and Server 2008, without losing the existing data on that partition. However users need to choose "Create Volume/Encrypt a non-system partition/Standard volume/Select Device/Encrypt partition in place" to make use of ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Microsoft said late Wednesday that it plans to break out of its monthly patch cycle to issue a security update today for a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows.
Redmond rarely releases security patches outside of Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of each month. The software giant isn't providing ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Microsoft users are being targeted again by malware via e-mail, scammers/spammers never give up and for once the e-mail looks fairly legitimate.
Usually this kind of ‘baitware’ is riddled with terrible grammar and horrible spellings, do make sure you brief the less security aware friends you have about this though just ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Grisoft, makers of AVG antivirus, on Wednesday released a new update addressing a false positive in another security product.
On Tuesday, AVG users reported desktops warnings that their desktop was infected with something called Trojan Agent r.CX. Some files within zlsSetup_70_483_000_en[1].exe, a compressed file containing dormant set-up files for Check Point's ...
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