Data Security Tips for CIOs: Wiping the Hard Drive

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Security issues are on the minds of all CIOs these days. Whether the CIO of a 1,300-student liberal-arts college or that of a 13,000-employee Fortune 100 company, never before has the issue of data security been more important. Besides a record-breaking year of data breaches, legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley ...

SanDisk warns of USB drive threat

Friday, April 11th, 2008

SanDisk has warned that IT managers are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are being brought into their organizations, backing this with a new study of corporate end-users and IT executives. The study found that 77% corporate end-users surveyed have admitted to using personal flash drives for work-related ...

Wfuzz v1.4 Released for Download – Bruteforcing & Fuzzing Web Applications

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

A new version of Wfuzz is available, many improvements and fixes since first release which was in the middle of 2007. Fuzzing is definitely in, an article was posted recently about how everyone should keep on fuzzing! Will post it up soon. Wfuzz is a tool designed for bruteforcing Web Applications, ...

Biometric Hacking Tool Debuts

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

A British security researcher has demonstrated a "biologging" system for intercepting biometric authentication data, warning that attacks on biometric systems could become relatively straightforward if current practices don't change. Matthew Lewis, of London-based Information Risk Management, demonstrated a proof-of-concept biologger last week at Black Hat Amsterdam and released the tool's source ...