Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Well, I finally jumped on that social networking bandwagon called Twitter. I signed up for Twitter about an hour or so ago just to check it out and see what all the hype was about. I know, I'm slow. But they always say that a person hears or sees something ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Earlier I wrote about my proposed Tactical Network Security Monitoring Platform. Today I finally sat down and installed the operating systems I need on this system to create a portable tactical forensics and investigation platform. I did not want to use my main work laptop for this sort of work ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Dating back to the end of February, we have been tracking test runs of malicious PDF messages to very specific targets. These PDF files exploit the recent vulnerability CVE-2008-0655.
Ever since the end of March, beginning of April, the amount of samples seen in the wild has significantly increased. Interestingly enough, ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software, will tomorrow release AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, the latest version of the company’s popular and widely-used free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine.
AVG Free provides basic protection against viruses and spyware, ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
You already love the one-stop convenience of shopping online at Amazon.com, but chances are you're not getting everything you can out of this feature-packed shopping engine. Did you know Amazon can email you suggestions from Mom's wish list two weeks before her birthday? Automatically ship you a new case of ...
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