Friday, March 6th, 2009 How do you transition from being a recent graduate from a Security degree to actually getting into the field to gain real-world experience? I thought for sure this Bachelors in Information Systems Security would be my key and that I would be in high demand for any company. Now, I ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009 A researcher has found a convincing way to hack the SSL protocol used to secure logins to a range of Web sites, including e-commerce and banking sites.Using a specially-created app, 'SSLstrip', a researcher calling himself Moxie Marlinspike demonstrated to Black Hat Arlington, Va attendees, how vulnerable many SSL connections were ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009 A number of industry heavywights have unveiled the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), a new specification jointly developed by Brocade, EMC, HP, IBM, LSI, Seagate and Thales."Our customers' IT environments are growing in complexity and, at the same time, these companies are under extreme pressures to meet compliance regulations and ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner , ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Security vendor Symantec is using new virtual machine technology to protect Web surfers from online attack.Called Vibes, the software bounces between three different virtual machine sessions, depending on what the user is doing on the Web. When Vibes spots the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol used for secure Web transactions, ...
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