Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
The wildly popular open source Snort intrusion prevention technology is getting a major makeover.
Marty Roesch, who wrote the first version of the software nearly 10 years ago, has rewritten the software from top to bottom in the next-generation Snort 3.0 release, due in beta next month and early next year ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Whelp, we’ve talked about it, but now it’s finally possible. CSRF can now cause jail time. The FBI has begun arresting people who click on links to supposed child pornography. Now, I understand the noble pursuit, but there’s a fairly huge flaw in the old logic. I can force users ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
We're excited to tell you that we have improved the scanning for rootkits. Beginning with the first updates in march we have added new anti rootkit plugins for Spybot - Search & Destroy. Apart from that we have also developed a new tool - the RootAlyzer
Rootkits are a technology that ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Voltage Security offers to make deploying encryption at the database level less painful with a technique called Format-Preserving Encryption.
Shocking the encryption market is not easy to do, but officials at Voltage Security must hope their new approach to encryption will do exactly that.
The company's flagship SecureData product uses a cryptographic ...
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