Monday, November 3rd, 2008 TrueCrypt 6.1, the open source, cross platform disk encryption tool, now supports the encryption of non-system partitions under Windows Vista and Server 2008, without losing the existing data on that partition. However users need to choose "Create Volume/Encrypt a non-system partition/Standard volume/Select Device/Encrypt partition in place" to make use of ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Computer keystrokes can be snooped from afar by detecting the slight electromagnetic radiation emitted when a key is pressed, according to new research.Other security experts have theorised keyboards were vulnerable to such detection, wrote Sylvain Pasini and Martin Vuagnoux, both doctorate students with the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at the ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 While there are a number of security risks in the world of electronic commerce, SQL injection is one of the most common Web site attack techniques used to steal customer data such as credit card numbers, hold customer data hostage by encrypting it or destroy data outright.Where a Web server ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008 I just heard on the Security Now podcast a listener mention that his Wells Fargo password was not case-sensitive. I'm not a Wells Fargo user but several users who are that I asked this morning actually confirmed this. You will be logged in no matter what case you enter into ...
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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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