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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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) have announced some AutoRun changes for Windows 7.
Currently Conficker and other malware is taking advantage of the AutoRun functionality as a spreading mechanism. AutoRun is used to start some programs automatically when a CD or another media is inserted into a computer. The main ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Mark Larson, the Google Chrome Project Manager, has posted an advisory on the Google Chrome Releases blog advising of a high risk vulnerability in the Chrome web browser. The cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability is caused by an error in handling URLs in the ChromeHTML URI handler, allowing an attacker to ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
At the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Dubai on Thursday, security researchers demonstrated how software they developed can already take advantage of a design problem with the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, allowing them to hack into the system. VBootkit 2.0, created by researchers Vipin Kumar and ...
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