Monday, May 19th, 2008
Five former Cisco engineers have co-founded a start-up called Rohati Systems whose products take dead aim at traditional perimeter firewalls.
A traditional firewall and its access control lists "is not capable of doing its job today from an access-control perspective," says CEO and President Shane Buckley. "Nowadays, your ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Researchers have developed techniques for stealing computer data from a computer using some unlikely hacking tools: cameras and telescopes.
In two separate pieces of research, teams at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany, describe attacks that seem ripped from the pages of spy novels. ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
For those of you that do not know, Paypal allows their registered users to generate temporary MasterCard credit card numbers on the fly to be used on websites that do not allow secure payment methods such as PayPal or Google Checkout.
When you log into your PayPal account, you should see ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
A new attack on PayPal could have allowed users who thought they were on a trusted page to access a fraudulent page and possibly expose personal information. On Friday, Finnish researcher Harry Sintonen reported the vulnerability on an IRC chat room.
In an interview with Netcraft, Sintonen said the issue was ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Sometimes I wonder to myself have I mentioned a certain tool on the site, usually one of my favourites…often I search the site to find I have never posted about it.
It just goes to show how we often overlook some of the more ‘obvious’ choices, and to many people they ...
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