Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
There's nothing new about Windows trojans resorting to a little blackmail, but Computer Associates has now observed a new twist; a trojan which blocks internet access until the user enters an activation code. This is activation code is obtained by sending an SMS containing a particular number to an expensive ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
I've been using SyncToy to back up data to an external USB drive and then using Jungle Disk to back up the data to Amazon S3. With the newest version of SyncToy (2.1) they fixed a bug for EFS and now files retain their encryption when copied to an NTFS ...
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Thousands of downloads. Countless positive reviews on software blogs around the Internet. It's been quite a ride so far for Microsoft Security Essentials.In AV Comparative's most recent report on malware removal, MSE was the only free antivirus rated Advanced+. That ranking placed it alongside big names like Norton, Kaspersky, and ...
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
New in 4.9.35:
- Added support for Windows 2008 Terminal Server in APR-RDP sniffer filter.
- Added Abel64.exe and Abel64.dll to support hashes extraction on x64 operating systems.
- Added x64 operating systems support in NTLM hashes Dumper, MS-CACHE hashes Dumper, LSA Secrets Dumper, Wireless Password Decoder, Credential Manager Password Decoder, DialUp Password ...
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
To easily assess the security state of machines in an environment, Microsoft offers the free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) scan tool. MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Microsoft Windows systems.
MBSA 2.1.1 builds on previous versions by adding support for ...
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