Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Working closely with the German hosting company – manitu, heise is making available with immediate effect a realtime DNS-based blacklist service for identifying weak SSL keys. The provider already runs the Realtime Blacklist for the iX spam filter NiX Spam, which enables mail servers to identify and filter spam.The principle ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Now this is an oldskool topic, wardialling! Some people still ask me about wardialling tools though, so here’s one I found recently written in Python.
PAW / PAWS is a wardialing software in python. It is designed to scan for ISDN (PAWS only) and “modern” analog modems (running at 9.6kbit/s or ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Blizzard's announcement of two-factor authentication for World of Warcraft is more significant than people realize.
Passwords are obsolete. They are broken. We all recognize this, yet we aren't quite ready to give up on passwords because we haven't an easy alternative.
World of Warcraft (WoW) is a good test case. It is ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Sophos announced today that it has published a new white paper describing how businesses can tackle the growing challenge of data leaking by enforcing an acceptable use policy, by applying appropriate controls already available in existing security solutions.
The white paper, entitled "Stopping data leakage: Exploiting your existing security investment", examines ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
So you're thinking, "Hey, I want to be totally irresponsible with my computer and load it up with crapware!" Really, isn't everyone getting tired of having to be so stinking responsible on the Internet all the time? We certainly are. We're ready for system protection that isn't afraid of our ...
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