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 ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The IronKey, designed to be the world’s most secure flash drive, protects your data, online passwords, and Internet privacy. Now you can safely carry your digital life with you wherever you go—with confidence and peace of mind. While it uses advanced security technologies previously only available to government agents and ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The first thing I suspect when someone tells me that their PC is running slowly is that they may be dealing with adware or spyware. Typically, a computer infected with this type of malware will display other symptoms as well. Odd behavior such as pop-up ads, your internet home page ...
Posted in General BS, Hardware, Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Windows | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Researcher Dan Kaminsky plans to show how a web-based attack could be used to seize control of certain routers.
Kaminsky has spent the past year studying how design flaws in the way that browsers work with the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) can be abused in order to get attackers behind ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
A loyal ISC reader pointed us to this note from AUSCERT. The basic story is that HP has optional "floppy USB keys" for some of their Proliant servers. The 256 KB and 1 GB versions include a batch that also came with 'W32.Fakerecy' or W32.SillyFDC' designed to infect your machine ...
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