Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
As has been widely reported, high profile users of Gmail - including US government officials, reporters and political activists - have had their email accounts hacked.
This wasn't a sophisticated attack against Google's systems, but rather a cleverly-crafted HTML email which pointed to a Gmail phishing page. Victims would believe that ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
We take a close look at our logs and try to explain every anomaly we see. Tuesday morning we saw a network traffic anomaly for a few minutes from one of our non-critical machines. These happen occasionally, and we typically identify them as an employee or an automated script.
In this ...
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
A new data storage technique provides security, as well as plausible deniability. Whereas encrypted data can be easily spotted--if not necessarily decrypted, without obtaining the decryption keys from the device owner--the new technique disguises stored data as random disk fragmentation. When implemented correctly, a digital forensic investigator might not even ...
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Popular cloud-storage service Dropbox has updated its terms of service to include a clause that states it will turn your files over to the government--if the government asks, of course.
This is nothing groundbreaking, Business Insider points out --it's a fairly common clause that appears in other cloud services' TOS, including ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
We are today proude to announce the release of RawCap, which is a free raw sockets sniffer for Windows.
Here are some highlights of why RawCap is a great tool to have in your toolset:Can sniff any interface that has got an IP address, including 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback)RawCap.exe is just 17 kBNo ...
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