Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Nowadays, who understands Di-Di-Di-Da-Da-Da-Di-Di-Dit (S.O.S., Save Our Souls)? Few people do, but your web browser just might. In his blog, security expert Nathan McFeters has reported the discovery of a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on an Italian website that allows attackers to inject malicious JavaScript encoded in Morse code in ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
If you think of flash memory, people typically think of USB memory sticks or memory cards for digital cameras and camcorders. But the potential applications for flash have expanded tremendously. The media started off as non-volatile memory for firmware on PCs and consumer electronics devices. It then became an ultra-portable ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
This is a pretty new tool and a very cool one, Hibernation is a fairly new feature for Windows so it’s good to see a new tool targeting that.
Microsoft provides a feature called Hibernation also know as suspend to disk that aims to save the system state into an undocumented ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Today I decided to give a very brief example on pharming and why it's so easy to pharm surfers with little or no skills. Usually, browser exploit writers give simple examples on how to read the boot files, or launch a calculator. There is so much you can do with ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
So you want to bank safely online? Then ditch your computer and make the transaction via your cell phone instead.
Using a mobile handset for this most sensitive online act might sound counterintuitive, given that phones are prone to being lost or stolen, but your cell phone might actually be safer ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Ars Technica's original Wireless Security Blackpaper was first published back in 2002, and in the intervening years, it has been a great reference for getting the technical lowdown on different wireless security protocols. As a sequel to the original blackpaper, we wanted to do something a little more basic and ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Google Adwords account holders are being targeted by criminals out to trick them into handing over credit card information using a clever URL spoof that has gained popularity in recent weeks.
On the face of it, the scam follows a traditional attack route involving the sending of spam e-mail to random ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
IronKey Inc., maker of the world's most secure flash drive, announced today availability of the
8GB-capacity of its IronKey secure USB devices. IronKey brings unprecedented mobile data convenience and security to individuals and organizations with its rugged, waterproof and tamper resistant USB drives that include always-on hardware encryption, strong authentication, portable ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
The developers of the PHP scripting language have issued Version 5.2.6, which fixes numerous bugs and plugs some security holes. The changes are comprehensive, including bug fixes to modules that link to third-party products. PHP 5.2.6 also rectifies several flaws that could have caused a crash.
The developers have eliminated errors ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Well, Microsoft has finally come clean about the real motivation behind Vista's User Account Control feature. As Tom Espiner's reports from the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft UAC Program Manager David Cross admits that UAC was designed to annoy users.
Espiner quotes Cross telling the security-conference audience that negative ...
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