Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Microsoft Corp. rushed out an emergency patch Wednesday to fix a major security flaw in its Internet Explorer Web browser that has allowed hackers to infect millions of computers with viruses and steal personal information.
So far, the vulnerability has not led to the widespread infections common a few years ago. ...
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Older versions of the popular Wordpress plugin WP-DP-Backup leaves the copy of your entire database in a public folder for all to see. The databases were stored in wp-content/backup/ and a quick Google search today still returns many databases of sites, including some as recent as a few days ago:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&suggon=0&safe=off&q=intitle%3A%22index+of+%2Fwp-content%2Fbackup%22&btnG=Search
For ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
The Google Chrome browser is no longer a beta, and has been outfitted with a coat of security armor Google hopes will both protect users and help Chrome compete with rival browsers.
The toughest piece of that armor involves sandboxing. In Chrome, HTML rendering and JavaScript execution are isolated in their ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows that can detect the OS, hostname and open ports of network hosts through packet sniffing or by parsing a PCAP file. NetworkMiner can also extract transmitted files from network traffic.
Homepage:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/networkminer/
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189429
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security) encrypt your email connection so that your password and messages are scrambled to eavesdroppers. If you're only connecting through a wired, office PC, you'll face little exposure with non-encrypted mail. But even with a wireless laptop on a known network--or especially ...
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