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Create a complete authentication system with Visual Basic 2005

This sample chapter, taken from Programming Visual Basic 2005, discusses how to create an authentication system for your Internet apps with forms-based security and Visual Basic 2005. With the ready-to-go controls and built-in functions found in Visual Basic 2005, creating the system is much easier than it...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, Authentication System, O'Reilly Media Inc., Authentication, Programming, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Security, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Book chapters 2005-11-18

Crypto researchers abuzz over flaws

Crypto researchers abuzz over flawsI could be wrong but....I think tools to hack MD5 already exists.here's a tool to hack MD5 and SHA1http://www.securitystats.com/tools/hashcrack.phphave fun !Mathematically Interesting - But Practical?Among all of the hype of this news, the limitations of the attacks seem pretty severe though the descriptions have been minimal.Getting...

Tags: SECURITY, hash, flaw, authentication system, collision, authentication

Discussion threads 2004-08-17

Evaluation Techniques for Biometrics-Based Authentication Systems (FRR)

Biometrics-based authentication is becoming popular because of increasing ease-of-use and reliability. Performance evaluation of such systems is an important issue. This paper attempts to address two aspects of performance evaluation that have been conventionally neglected. First, the "difficulty" of the data that is used in a study influences the evaluation...

Tags: Technique, Performance Evaluation, Authentication System, Authentication, Biometrics, Performance Management, Team Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

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iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded

... WHAT?Who in their right mind keep a server running with default usernames/passwords on the default port....I doubt that jailbroken iPhones are alone in this. It's possible, specially if iPhones have a ssh server running, that this could happen on non-jailbroken iPhones also.Just one question...Has this person been remanded yet?...

Tags: Smart phones, extortion, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

ADmitMac 5.0 (Mac)

ADmitMac v3 allows Macintosh users running Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, or Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger with the latest updates, to participate in and take advantage of all the directory services provided by Microsoft's Active Directory, NT, and Apple's Workgroup Manager. As a result, administrators can manage their domain...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Administrator, Network, Domain, ADmitMac 5.0, Apple Mac OS X, Kerberos, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-11-03

StarLink Suite x86 2.3b build 3583 (Windows)

StarLink Gateway provides support to send SMS by SMTP Mail Server. It also provide send free SMS to mobile network. The system is multi user Client-server system. Server is running and listening specific port (TCP/IP Port). Users sign in to server by providing their authentication information (user id and their...

Tags: Mobile Network, Mobile, Intel X86, Microsoft Windows, SMS, Babu Software, SMTP Mail Server, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Telephony, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Long-term Mozy for Mac review

Sad to read thisI have not found a "cloud" solution to backup either.I tried Backblaze, but the 1 month for the initial backup was not for me. Then, when I UNinstalled it, I was shocked to find a bit of it running on my iMac over 3 months later.The problem...

Tags: Backups, Desktops, backup, Mozy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, online backup

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

CryptoExpert Professional 7.9.13 (Windows)

CryptoExpert uses a real-time on-the-fly encryption system to encrypt and decrypt data. Your files are stored in the encrypted form on virtual hard drive with password authentication, but when it is requested by any application, it gets decrypted on-the-fly. Conversely, unencrypted data to be stored is encrypted instantaneously and then...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Volume, InterCrypto, CryptoExpert, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking

Software downloads 2009-10-25

CryptoExpert Lite 7.9.13 (Windows)

CryptoExpert creates encrypted virtual disks and these disks are visible as usual disks with drive letters (for example, G:, H:, Z:, i.e. with any drive letter that is not used by other system devices). The data stored on a CryptoExpert disk is stored in the container file. A container is...

Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, InterCrypto, CryptoExpert

Software downloads 2009-10-25

Application performance can't be maximized in the dark

When optimizing and managing how applications perform ? from the eyes of the user ? IT teams need light shed onto the actual trouble spots says OpTier's Motti Tal. Commentary - Sometimes, when end users experience application trouble, response times degrade slowly. Other times, applications seem to turn off...

Tags: Performance, Monitoring, Application Performance, Response Time, Storage, Hardware, applications, database, Motti Tal OpTier, Special to ZDNet, Motti Tal OpTier, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-20

Electronic voting: Changing the world faster than a Windows upgrade

no encryption is good enough...Considering the power the US President has to shape US and World Policy, I think EVERYONE will be gunning to crack that nut.Enemies will try to get the worst/weakest candidate. Allies will try to get the guy who most loves them into power. Business...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, e-voting, Windows Upgrade, Changing

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?

Make a post explaining what SharePoint is...As you said, it is a complex product. I remember when Lotus Notes came out, it was difficult to pin it to a traditional category - what IS it? SharePoint may have some of the same issues of perception.What is SharePoint:There are 2 SharePoint?s,...

Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak

Weak Passwords suckUntil about 4 years ago my organization had no restrictions on passwords. Our students got their birthdays or their phone numbers as passwords and our staff could choose whatever they wanted. Most common staff password was 1234. Well after years of security breaches and administration...

Tags: MSN Hotmail, phishing, password, weak password

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

The case of the fake money-mules: Inside the URLZone Trojan network

Security EvangelistHi, boy I sure wish people would stop using the word Evangelist in the wrong way. An Evangelist is someone you preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not a secular title at all. Wikipedia recently removed the secular definition and Webster is researching it. Evangelist is from the Greek...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Banking, E-business/E-commerce, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Personal finance, SECURITY, network, trojan horse, online banking, bank, virus

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

LinkByLink 1.0.13.1 (Mac)

Even when using a CMS Content Management System checking websites for broken links is an issue. By far not everybody uses a CMS, and for finding broken links to external web pages or for identifying invalid e-mail addresses more specialized tools are needed. LinkByLink addresses this and other tasks. The...

Tags: HTML, Apple Macintosh, Web Site, Content Management System, Seimet Software, LinkByLink, Web Site Development, Content Management, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-27

SupportSmith 2.0 (Windows)

SupportSmith v2 offers professional and company users the necessary resources to quickly establish secure connections between computers. No ports open are required neither on the Technician's side nor Customer's. Quickly and safely establish remote desktop connections with a suite of support tools to allow for the best interaction, such as...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cybele Software, Collaboration, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-25

PeaZip 2.7.1 (Windows)

PeaZip is a free, open source file and archive manager for 32 and 64 bit Windows and Linux. It is available either as installable and portable application not needing installation. Full support: 7Z, 7Z-sfx, ARC/WRC, BZ2/TBZ2, Custom user defined, GZ/TGZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, split, TAR, UPX, ZIP. Open, browse, extract,...

Tags: Job, Giorgio Tani, PeaZip, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Office Suites, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-09-25

News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Modern banker malware undermines two-factor authentication

Ok, ill buy that..Yes Two-factor authentication doesnt help avoid the already infected. Now what the bank SHOULD have one other than the user having a fully patched system and AV if hes on Windows is when the website detected that there was activity from another IP address - represented another...

Tags: Financial services, Security administration, bank, two-factor authentication, banker malware

Discussion threads 2009-09-23