Monday, August 4th, 2008 Most of the major security suite vendors release their new editions in the fall, but some run ahead or behind the rest of the pack. With the release of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 the fall flood of security suites has officially begun. I'm working on two other suites right now, ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008 JUST as the body's immune system sometimes mistakenly attacks its own cells, so the security software intended to protect network users can be fooled into attacking them. This could make attacks by hackers even harder to detect and prevent.Security software typically prevents unauthorised access by encrypting most of the data ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008 A security expert who helped pioneer some of the research behind the recent cold-boot attack discovery by researchers at Princeton University will reveal next week at Black Hat USA the technical details of methods he developed for protecting an encrypted laptop from the hack.The software-based techniques defend against so-called cold ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008 Adeona is an open source internet-based laptop tracking system that is free to use. It's available for Linux, OSX, and Windows XP/Vista. After installation, Adeona will submit at random intervals, anonymously encrypted updates on the computer's location to servers on the Internet, specifically to OpenDHT, a free storage service. The ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008 MoocherHunter™ is a mobile tracking software tool for the real-time on-the-fly geo-location of wireless moochers and hackers. It’s included as part of the OSWA Assistant LiveCD we mentioned quite recently.’I wanted to mention this tool separately as I think it’s very cool!MoocherHunter™ identifies the location of an 802.11-based wireless moocher ...
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