Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Do-it-all suites are the name of the security game these days. Sure, you can gather free programs that cover the bases much as a suite would, but who wants to bother with finding out which apps work together and which ones might leave you pulling your hair out?We do. And ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have released an extension for Firefox 3 that can protect wireless network users from so-called "man-in-the-middle" attacks.
The software, dubbed "Perspectives," is available for download for free.
Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates Web addresses into ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Criticize the people behind the Asprox botnet, and they take it personal—so much so that they will bombard you with malware, according to a report by SecureWorks.
The botnet, now at least 50,000-strong with bots, is sending out phishing e-mails posing as messages from banks in the United States and United ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Secunia, the security services provider, has issued a security advisory about a vulnerability in Trend Micro's OfficeScan 8.0 and Worry-Free Business Security 5.0 that makes it easier for attackers to take control of the web management of those products. According to Secunia, the web-based configuration interface uses a pseudo-random token ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Traditionally, the area of information security has been purely defensive. Classic examples of the defensive mechanisms used in order to protect communication networks include firewalls, encryption and IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems). The strategy follows the classical security paradigm of "Protect, Detect and React.” In other words, try to protect the ...
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