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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Thursday, July 24th, 2008 MoocherHunter™ is a mobile tracking software tool for the real-time on-the-fly geo-location of wireless moochers and hackers. It’s included as part of the OSWA Assistant LiveCD we mentioned quite recently.’I wanted to mention this tool separately as I think it’s very cool!MoocherHunter™ identifies the location of an 802.11-based wireless moocher ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Kevin Mitnick knows that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.As a young fugitive hacker, he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008 The problem with hunting for malware is that most currently available analysis tools tip off the attacker that you're doing it. But at next month's Black Hat conference, a researcher will release a tool that is harder to detect -- and harder to avoid -- than the malware analyzers currently ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008 A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks.The new malware inserts links to dangerous Web pages within ASF (Advanced Systems Format) media files."The possibility of this has been known for a little while but this is the first ...
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