New attack against multiple encryption functions

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Unless you're a dyed in the wool cryptographic geek you probably didn't know that there was a Crypto conference, or even a chain of worldwide crypto conferences that take place each year. Fortunately, for the most of us that aren't crypto geeks there are a handful of very highly skilled ...

Bogus FedEx Notifications: New Malware Courier of Choice

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Remember the UPS spam runs that were popular last month (see previous blog posts here and here)? Spammers have chosen a different courier this time, but the message was basically the same.Posing as FedEx notifications, these email messages have the same format as their earlier UPS counterparts: tracking number (perhaps ...

DNS poisoners hijack typo domains

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Websense, the security services provider, has reported a successful case of cache poisoning on name servers of one of the largest Chinese ISPs. Netcom customers are said to have been steered by criminals to manipulated pages on which exploits for RealPlayer, MS Snapshot Viewer, Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Data ...

Ten ways improve Vista’s security

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Although Windows XP was Microsoft's preferred desktop operating system for an unprecedented length of time, it became something of a PR nightmare for the software giant. Windows XP is full of security holes and is very easy to compromise. When Microsoft created Windows Vista, its primary goal was to address ...

OpenVAS – Open Vulnerability Assessment System

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

As you all probably known since version 3 Nessus turned to a proprietary model and started charging for the latest plugins locking most of us out. Now we finally have a new, properly organised forked development with the name of OpenVAS - at last a decent and free Vulnerability Scanner!OpenVAS ...