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- Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly
- Oh dear. The Chicken Little contingent is out in full force. Break out your Kevlar helmets, everyone, because the sky is falling on Windows! At last week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, researchers Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd presented a paper that outlined some new attack vectors they had...
- Tags: Black Hat, Attacker, Windows Security, Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista, Defense, Memory Protection, Vulnerability Disclosure, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- SEO poisoning attack hits big sites; Can the defenses scale?
- Security researcher Dancho Danchev said Friday that SEO poisoning attacks have scaled up and are attacking well known sites. Google has been filtering its results as a defense, but Danchev's latest finding brings up an interesting question: Can the defenses scale? First, a few key points. SEO...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Defense, Attack, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- SAIC loses personal data on 500,000 military
- One would think one of the biggest Pentagon contractors would know a little something about data encryption. Alas, SAIC Inc. likely compromised the personal information of more than 500,000 military personnel and family members because it kept the information online and unencrypted, the Virginian Pilot reports.As usual in these...
- Tags: Security, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Anonymous FTP sites leave military secrets naked online
- According to the Associated Press, military information that would pose a threat to U.S. troops if it were to fall into enemy hands, is freely available over the Internet.Among the sensitive information mistakenly posted online: Detailed schematics of a military detainee-holding facility in southern Iraq, geographical surveys and aerial photographs...
- Tags: Security, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Who broke into Pentagon email? China or rogue hacker or ...
- Hackers broke into Defense Department systems and caused an email outage that disrupted email service for 1,500 employees, reports Ars Technica."Elements of the OSD unclassified email system were taken offline yesterday afternoon, due to a detected penetration," said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, according to a transcript of the event...
- Tags: Security, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Open source RedHat certified for defense, intel sales
- Red Hat Linux received the security seal of approval recently when it became certified at a level that puts it on par with with Sun Microsystems' Trusted Solaris operating system, reports IDG News Service.The EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 certification level of certification will make the company more attractive to sensitive...
- Tags: Defense, Open source
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Animal Invasion (zip)
- 1-2 player game where you must defend yourself against the animals that are attacking your tower. In one-player mode you play as defense vs animals, in two-player mode one defend and one attack. Survive long enough as defense to fire a nuclear bomb or as animal you must destroy the...
- Tags: Animal, Defense, Venus Duel Productions, Games, Security, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-02-26
- Hackers shut down student network at Naval War College
- Hackers attacked the computer network at the Naval War College in Newport, taking down the schools network for more than two weeks, including some e-mail services and the colleges Web site, AP reports. The intrusion was detected Nov. 16 on the unclassified network. No word on when the network...
- Tags: network, Defense, Security, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
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- Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0
- Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage and where you put your valuables. Egnyte started out because the small business, which is...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, On-demand, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Egnyte, Backup Facility, Storage, Backups, Hardware, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- 9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net
- Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to the Miami Herald. The issue in the 9/11 trail of Mohammed and his coconspirators is what resources they...
- Tags: Battery, 9/11 Commission, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- IT warning: Turbulence ahead
- The technology budget is on the skids. The business types don't quite get IT (and by the way you don't get them either). And amid all this turmoil all you have to do is keep your infrastructure humming and solve the 25 most contentious business-technology issues by the first half...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- EU group demos quantum cryptography
- Under the auspices of the European Union, the world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, Silicon.com reports. It's the product of four years of work by 41 organizations from 12 countries, overseen by the SECOQC (Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication Based on...
- Tags: Cryptography, Quantum Cryptography, Cable, Network Technology, Digital Security, Security, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Patch Tuesday's make investors jittery
- Disclosing software vulnerabilities can be bad for stock price, according to research carried out by security firm McAfee. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Stock Price, Stock, Microsoft Corp., Investor, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Patch Tuesday's make investors jittery
- Disclosing software vulnerabilities can be bad for stock price, according to research carried out by security firm McAfee. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Software Vulnerability, Investor, Financial Accounting, Investment, Security, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, stock, microsoft, mcafee
- Image galleries 2008-10-13
- Debate around 'partial disclosure' heats up
- There are many ways of telling the world about a security vulnerability. A vulnerability can be announced without telling the vendor, it can be announced after giving the vendor a period of time to fix the issue, or it may just be circulated amongst the underground without ever coming...
- Tags: Disclosure, Researcher, Vulnerability, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Step-on scanner lets air passengers keep shoes on
- Magshoe has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden weapons. LOD, Israel--Israel has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be...
- Tags: Shoe, Israel, Magshoe, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Reuters, scanner, security, air travel
- News items 2008-10-13
- Can virtualization help when times get tough?
- When times get tough, many organizations look for new ways to reduce costs while still being able to provide their customers with the products and services they need. This appears to be just such a time. Virtualization technology can most certainly be part of the solution. Let's review how each...
- Tags: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- ElcomSoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to speed up WPA/WPA2 brute-force attack
- Russian security firm ElcomSoft has released software that leverages NVIDIA GPUs to speed up the brute-force cracking of WPA and WPA2 pre-shared WiFi keys. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: NVidia Corp., ElcomSoft, GPU, Attack, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)
- Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Text messages save elephants' lives, villagers' crops
- As elephants' habitat is destroyed, the great beasts frequently leave their protected reserves, barging into villages and eventually are killed by rangers. But in Kenya, there is a better way: text messaging. A group called Save the Elephants has outfitted a huge bull elephant named Kimani with...
- Tags: Elephant, GPS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
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