Monday, May 18th, 2009
A highly dangerous SSH flaw discovered a few months ago could still cause your organisation headaches, according to security experts.
The vulnerability was first made public when it emerged last November that researchers at Royal Holloway's Information Security Group had found the flaw, which could allow hackers access to sensntive data.
SSH, ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
The Samurai Web Testing Framework is a live linux environment that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The CD contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites. In developing this environment, we have based our tool selection ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Symantec's MessageLabs says the assumption most web-based malware originates from recently created, temporary, trashy adult sites is becoming an old-fashioned notion. Modern hackers are focusing on well-established, trusted websites they can compromise-sites users trust every day of the week.
According to data collected last week, 84.6 percent of website domains blocked ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Rapidly rising cyber crime and the growing prospect of the Internet being used as a medium for terrorist attacks pose a major challenge for IT security. Cryptography is central to this challenge, since it underpins privacy, confidentiality, and identity, which together provide the fabric for e-commerce and secure communications. Cryptography ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
New features in 6.2:
The I/O pipeline now uses read-ahead buffering, which improves read performance especially on solid-state drives, typically by 30-50%. (Windows)
Improvements, bug fixes, and security enhancements:
The boot loader now supports motherboards with BIOSes that reserve large amounts ...
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