Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
You installed Firefox. How do you make it more secure for daily use? How do the Mozilla developers ensure that they are doing all the right things? How do you safely browse the Internet?
These are not easy questions to answer, and some of the answers will be system/OS-dependent.
Security functionality in ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Microsoft is promising that the upcoming IE (Internet Explorer) 8 will be the safest and most secure version of its Web browser yet. Of course, everyone has heard this song before. Still, with the addition of two significant new security features, it's hard to argue that the new release won't ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Exploit-Me is a suite of Firefox web application security testing tools. Exploit-Me tools are designed to be lightweight and easy to use. Instead of using a proxy like many web application testing tools, Exploit-Me integrates directly with Firefox. It currently consists of two tools, one for XSS and one for ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
I have a System Forensics class this quarter at ITT Technical Institute and this was my first true lab where I actually got to use the tools and resources against "real" data. We are doing a simulated case from The HoneyNet Project and here was the documented police report:
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
This is how dangerous the web has become. Lately it is estimated that over 10K of websites fell victim to a large attack that included a remote Javascript file into the title tag of a web page. The JS malware exploits vulnerabilities in Windows, RealPlayer, and other applications to break ...
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