Energizer DUO USB battery charger software allows unauthorized remote system access

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Energizer DUO is a USB battery charger. Included with the charger is a Windows application that allows the user to view the battery charging status. The installer for the Energizer DUO software places the file UsbCharger.dll in the application's directory and Arucer.dll in the Windows system32 directory. When the Energizer ...

My Data Backup Routine

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

I wanted to offer my personal backup routine to all those that do not have something in place and not sure where or how to start.  I tried many different methods over the years and so far I think this is the best one for me, my amount of data, ...

Secure DNS server launched

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Secure64, which specializes in products designed to support the domain name system (DNS), has released the product to help prevent a condition in which the server's local list of domain name mappings is corrupted. Attackers create this condition by pretending to be another DNS server responding to a DNS query.One ...

Most security products fail to perform

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Nearly 80 percent of security products fail to perform as intended when first tested and generally require two or more cycles of testing before achieving certification, according to a new ICSA Labs report. The “ICSA Labs Product Assurance Report” - co-authored by the Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report research ...

Evil Maid goes after TrueCrypt!

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Let’s quickly recap the Evil Maid Attack. The scenario we consider is when somebody left an encrypted laptop e.g. in a hotel room. Let’s assume the laptop uses full disk encryption like e.g. this provided by TrueCrypt or PGP Whole Disk Encryption.Many people believe, including some well known security experts, ...