Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 25th, 2008
In the old days, as our parents frequently love to remind us, life was much simpler. You bought a computer, and when you finally figured out what you wanted to do with it, you assembled a list and went down to your local Egghead for some software. It was straightforward, ...
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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
The Internet is slowly inching closer to ratcheting up the security of its Domain Name System (DNS) server architecture: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plans to go operational with the secure DNS technology, DNSSEC, later this year in one of its domains.
ICANN officials said the organization ...
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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
There's another round of mass SQL injections going on which has infected hundreds of thousands of websites.
Performing a Google search results in over 510,000 modified pages.
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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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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
With the Ubuntu 8.04 release a few days away, there comes a time when one needs an end-all reference to the system. The time is now, and if you’re an Ubuntu user and liked the original cheat sheet, then do we have a surprise for you:
Click the preview above to ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
In an attempt to find a good Unix reference for you FOSSwire readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, why not make one?
Click the image above to download a full PDF. Print it out, stick it on your wall, and pass it on. It’s ...
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