Detecting Rogue Wireless

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Wireless networking technologies are a rich playground for hackers -- both ethical penetration testers and malicious attackers. There are many avenues of attack, ranging from attacking the infrastructure, the clients, or the actual traffic through man-in-the-middle sniffing and manipulation. Rich Mogull covered the wireless “Evil Twin” attack in his recent ...

Microsoft sees huge rise in Web attacks

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious email in favour of Web-based attacks, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users. The company saw the number of Trojan downloader programs it removed from Windows machines jump by 300 percent, according to Jimmy Kuo, principal architect ...

11 Critical Security Apps

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

If you don't have security software, your PC is an Internet mugging waiting to happen. We show you the eleven best pieces of software for defending yourself against online thugs. The PC security landscape is constantly changing. Well paid, malicious programmers keep cranking out new and different attacks, and the security ...

Security Guru Gives Hackers a Taste of Their Own Medicine

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Malicious hackers beware: Computer security expert Joel Eriksson might already own your box. Eriksson, a researcher at the Swedish security firm Bitsec, uses reverse-engineering tools to find remotely exploitable security holes in hacking software. In particular, he targets the client-side applications intruders use to control Trojan horses from afar, finding vulnerabilities ...