Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute.
The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The ...
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Here is a great post from Jeff Moser over at Moserware that gives you a detailed walk-through of what exactly happens when you make an https connection to a server (in this example: amazon.com). So much more happens than just the URL changing from http to https and a padlock ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows that can detect the OS, hostname and open ports of network hosts through packet sniffing or by parsing a PCAP file. NetworkMiner can also extract transmitted files from network traffic.
New functionalities in the v 0.88 release are:
Support for the Cisco ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage's FTP password, online passwords (like website member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
The Public Interest Registry will announce today that it has begun cryptographically signing the .org top-level domain using DNS security extensions known as DNSSEC.
DNSSEC is an emerging standard that prevents spoofing attacks by letting Web sites verify their domain names and corresponding IP addresses using digital signatures and public-key encryption.
DNSSEC ...
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