The ABCs of securing your wireless network

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 ...

IronKey Unveils 8GB Version of Secure USB Drive

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 ...

Webroot plots the end of desktop security

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Security's rising star, Webroot, plans to offer web and malware filtering as a service to SMBs, the first vendor of any size to offer such a capability in subscription form. The software-as a service (SaaS) model, which extends the email filtering service already offered by the company, will appeal to smaller ...

Wireless modem considerations

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I am pretty sure that there are a number of you out there reading this blog over a wireless network. Given that wireless is so widely distributed these days, its not uncommon that users are unaware of how insecure their wireless setup maybe. Unfortunately one other reality is that a number ...

YubiKey - One-time Password and Authentication Device

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

It works seamlessly with any hardware and operating system combination supporting USB keyboards such as Windows, MacOS, Linux and others. The Key generates and sends unique time-variant authentication codes by emulating keystrokes through the standard keyboard interface. The computer to which the Key is attached receives this authentication code character ...

Are you ready for Ubuntu 8.04?

Monday, April 21st, 2008

So, did you know that new Ubuntu, version 8.04 codename Hardy Heron, will be out in less than two days from now? They said that there are many new features and softwares in version 8.04, like… New Core System Features: GNOME 2.22 Linux kernel 2.6.24 PolicyKit PulseAudio Xorg 7.3 New Software Functions: Firefox 3 Beta 5 Brasero Transmission World Clock Applet Vinagre Uncomplicated ...

Find all encrypted files

Monday, April 21st, 2008

You can use the EFSINFO tool to find all encrypted files on a volume. This tool is found in the Windows Server 2003 Support Tools on your product CD. To use this tool to find encrypted files, run the following from a command prompt: efsinfo /s:c: | find ": Encrypted" Why would ...

Additional Bitlocker Incident Response tips

Monday, April 21st, 2008

In January, I posted some Incident Response tips on how to deal with a Vista system with Bitlocker enabled. You can read the initial post here. I was recently doing some training and we discussed Bitlocker techniques in depth and decided to post a follow up with some additional tips. The ...

Wireless Security Gets Boost From New Round of Products

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Wireless security vendors used last week's conference here to showcase both the problems and solutions in controlling access to wireless voice and data. AirTight Networks launched SpectraGuard Online, touted as wireless security's first manifestation of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that more vendors -- and a few cyber criminals -- are using.  In ...

BT Home Hub Wi-Fi Security Easy to Crack

Monday, April 14th, 2008

A security researcher claims to have found a significant weakness in the wireless encryption of a DSL home gateway made by Thomson and distributed to broadband subscribers in the U.K. by network operator BT. Exploiting the weakness could enable someone to connect to a victim's Wi-Fi router for malicious purposes such ...