Password Strength Meter

Friday, April 15th, 2011

People wonder if their password is a good password. I often come across two distinct groups of people. The first would fall into a "just use any word" category, which is a very bad practice for picking passwords. The second group will mix in a few numbers in order to ...

RawCap sniffer for Windows released

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

We are today proude to announce the release of RawCap, which is a free raw sockets sniffer for Windows. Here are some highlights of why RawCap is a great tool to have in your toolset:Can sniff any interface that has got an IP address, including 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback)RawCap.exe is just 17 kBNo ...

Major Dropbox security flaw discovered

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Dropbox is a popular tool used to sync files between multiple computers and devices that a user owns. A user installs the software, designates a folder to keep syncronized, and is able to access those files among other machines that they own. The tool was even picked as one of ...

Ransomware squeezes users with bogus Windows activation demand

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

A new Trojan tries to extort money from users by convincing them to dial international telephone numbers to reactive Windows, a security researcher said today. Once on a PC, the malware displays a message claiming that Windows is "locked" and must be reactivated, said Mikko Hypponen, the chief research officer of ...

Vulnerability in MHTML Could Allow Information Disclosure

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in all supported editions of Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a victim to run malicious scripts when visiting various Web sites, resulting in information disclosure. This impact is similar to server-side cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Microsoft ...