Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 This is how dangerous the web has become. Lately it is estimated that over 10K of websites fell victim to a large attack that included a remote Javascript file into the title tag of a web page. The JS malware exploits vulnerabilities in Windows, RealPlayer, and other applications to break ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008 The wildly popular open source Snort intrusion prevention technology is getting a major makeover.Marty Roesch, who wrote the first version of the software nearly 10 years ago, has rewritten the software from top to bottom in the next-generation Snort 3.0 release, due in beta next month and early next year ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Voltage Security offers to make deploying encryption at the database level less painful with a technique called Format-Preserving Encryption.Shocking the encryption market is not easy to do, but officials at Voltage Security must hope their new approach to encryption will do exactly that.The company's flagship SecureData product uses a cryptographic ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Insomniac and coder Chad Perrin says that hackers who stay up all night coding can get more done in those hours than most people can in a month because an all-nighter lends itself to getting into "hack mode," or the state of flow. The Jargon Wiki defines hack mode as:
A ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 I'm not sure if this is an isolated incident or another mass attack through third party advertising like what had happened with Facebook a while back, but the folks over at ha.ckers.org are reporting a case where one of their users was browsing their Yahoo Mail account and got hit with ...
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