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Cool tools for hacker trackers
2007-09-30 09:03:00 If you want to keep up with the latest criminal exploits without having to collect malware yourself, take a look at SRI International’s Cyber-Threat Analytics BotHunter Malware Analysis Web page. Reporting on information and statistics collected from a research honeynet, the BotHunter Malware Analysis page makes daily infection logs from high-interaction honeypots available for anyone ... More About: Tools , Network Security , Cool , Hacker
Building a cheap and powerful intrusion detection system
2007-09-30 09:00:00 Network-based intrusion-detection systems (IDS) are an integral component of a layered IT security strategy. As October is National Cyber Awareness Month, if your overall security system doesn’t include network-based intrusion detection, now is an excellent time to consider implementing an IDS package. Commercial network-based IDS can often be quite expensive. On the other hand, there ... More About: Building , System , Network Security , Intrusion Detection , Detection
Protect your network against fiber hacks
2007-09-30 08:55:00 Copper cable has been known as the easily tapped physical transmission medium for years. Conscientious network and security managers either provided tight physical security for cabling or used fiber as an alternative. Many network managers considered fiber relatively safe due to the perceived challenges associated with tapping into an optical cable run. However, fiber is ... More About: Hacks , Fiber , Network
Old hard drives still full of sensitive data
2007-09-30 08:42:00 Hard drives full of confidential data are still turning up on the second-hand market, researchers have reported. Investigations carried out on behalf of BT by the University of Glamorgan in the U.K., Edith Cowan University in Australia, and Longwood University in the U.S., found that 37 percent of drives surveyed had traces of personal data ... More About: Encryption , Network Security , Data , Identity Theft , Privacy
How to protect your wireless network
2007-09-30 08:38:00 Bad guys don’t target just big, corporate networks. If you have a Wi-Fi network at home or in a small office, intruders may be after you, such as casual "war drivers" who troll city streets, looking for unprotected wireless networks. (Want to know more? See "Why you need wireless protection.") More About: Wireless , Network Security , Network
Build Yourself a Botwall
2007-09-30 08:35:00 Chief security officers have a panoply of tools to protect their companies? IT and data assets. There?s the hoary firewall, the intrusion-detection system and its intrusion-protection system cousin, and antivirus and antispyware software. Now there?s something new and increasingly important to add to IT?s defensive perimeter: the botwall, which targets those PC zombies controlled by ... More About: Malware , Intrusion Detection , Build
How To Protect Computer Data
2007-09-20 07:35:00 With the state of Connecticut’s latest debacle relating to the loss of notebook PCs from the state Department of Revenue Services, Gov. M. Jodi Rell has ordered that encryption be implemented on all portable devices. Encryption, however, is not an end-all solution. Encryption is effectively the last bastion of defense against information compromise. Data Security, Network ... More About: Computer , Prot
Best of open source in security
2007-09-12 13:17:00 In areas such as CRM software and portals, open source gained a foothold because users were willing to compromise — less could be more, because the price was right. In security, open source rushed in because commercial vendors fell down on the job. As security problems in the enterprise outstripped the capabilities of commercial solutions, ... More About: Security , Open Source , Open , Source , Open-Source
Protect Your Privacy from Google
2007-09-05 07:31:00 A simple HOWTO for stopping Googl e from logging your search history. While Google.com is a brilliant search site, and while its proprieters claim to abide by their ‘do no evil’ motto, there is one practice that threatens to expose you to much evil down the track. Google places a cookie on every user’s computer, timed ... More About: Privacy , Prot , Riva
Active anti-reverse techniques in Javascript
2007-09-01 15:13:00 We recently came across a very interesting suspicious web page. The HTML page of course contained malicious code that linked to the Trojan. However, it was a separate HTML page inside the benign one - the authors of the code went against HTML standards, and put in an extra <html></html> container. What’s surprising is that ... More About: Javascript , Anti , Active , Nique
Password stealing for dummies
2007-09-01 15:11:00 Ever wondered why Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is said to be such a bad thing? Who on Earth clicks on links that are 8 inches long, contain funny characters en masse and still enters valid log-in data? Our little demo shows that XSS can be hidden everywhere and it makes your password an easy prey. ... More About: Dummies , Password , Stealing
Microsoft launches Forefront, System Center
2007-05-04 14:43:00 In a move to expand its security and management product lines, Microsoft announced Wednesday the release of its Forefront Client Security and System Center Essentials 2007. As previously reported, Forefront Client Security is designed to protect corporate PCs, laptops and servers from spyware, viruses and rootkits. System Center, meanwhile, is designed for mid-size businesses and aims ... More About: Launch , Soft , Front
The color of information security
2007-05-04 14:41:00 If information security were a colour, it most definitely would be gray. Like life in general, information security is rarely black and white. As an information security consultant, most questions asked of me and my colleagues are answered in the same way: It depends. That is precisely what is frustrating for many people when they ... More About: Security , Information , Color , Information Security , Informa
Rootkits: The next big enterprise threat?
2007-05-01 08:51:00 Late at night, a system administrator performed a routine check of a crashed server, one of 48 systems comprising a major online infrastructure that generated about $4 million per month in revenue. He was a bit surprised that the system had gone down, as it had been humming for months without any indication of being ... More About: Rootkits , Enter , Rise , Rootkit , Enterprise
NIST Completes RFID Security Guidelines
2007-05-01 08:48:00 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), released this week its guidelines describing the various risks to data security and personal privacy that RFID deployments may pose, while also providing best practices and procedures, based on existing technology and regulations, to mitigate those risks. ... More About: Security , Guidelines , Line , Lines , Complete
Encryption Made Easy: The Advantages of Identity Based Encryption
2007-05-01 08:44:00 Enterprises are becoming increasingly interested in easy-to-use email encryption, as a wide variety of privacy and data protection regulations now apply to small, medium and large organizations across a wide variety of industries. Effective, secure messaging technologies keep sensitive information private, prevent anyone from tampering with the contents of messages and authenticate the identity of ... More About: Encryption , Made , Easy , Identity , The A
5 Tips for securing personal information at work
2007-05-01 08:40:00 There is always a worry in the work setting that personal information is not secure. Personal information includes any information that expresses facts or judgments about individuals. This information can include names, birthdays, occupation, title, credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other information that is individually assigned. If you worry about securing personal information ... More About: Information , Tips , Work , Informa
Simple defence against Google hacking
2007-04-27 08:31:00 Hackers may be able to use Google ’s search tools to unearth sensitive company data, but two IT professionals say basic security hygiene would prevent that data from going public in the first place. "If you have company secrets, you have to take steps to make sure it doesn’t get into the public domain," said Daniel ... More About: Defence , Again , Simple , King
Are Data Leaks Bleeding Your Company Dry?
2007-04-27 08:29:00 Businesses are starting to respond to the rising threat levels posed by data leakage from pocket-sized storage devices. The push to react is not coming from the fear of lost data as much as it is fear of losing money. Negative publicity became a primary driver last year in influencing corporations to address data leakage ... More About: Company , Data , Leak , Bleed , Compa
Top 10 Most Famous Hackers of All Time
2007-04-27 08:26:00 The portrayal of hackers in the media has ranged from the high-tech super-spy, as in Mission Impossible where Ethan Hunt repels from the ceiling to hack the CIA computer system and steal the “NOC list,” to the lonely anti-social teen who is simply looking for entertainment. The reality, however, is that hackers are a very diverse ... More About: Time , Famous , Hackers , Most
Sweetening the Honeypot
2007-04-27 08:24:00 New free tools and services aimed at making honeynets more manageable are now becoming available: The Honeynet Project next month will roll out its new Global Distributed Honeynet as well as new honeynet tools, Dark Reading has learned, while the New Zealand Honeynet Alliance has begun offering client based honeynet services for organizations that can’t ...
Five Mistakes of Data Encryption
2007-04-27 08:21:00 If you follow the media today, you might get to a conclusion that data encryption is everywhere. However, is this ?good? encryption? A classic saying ?Encryption is easy; key management is hard? illustrates one of the pitfalls that await those implementing encryption enterprise-wide or even SMB-wide. This paper covers some of the other mistakes that ... More About: Data , Mist , Five , Crypt
Microsoft business security ready for prime time
2007-04-27 08:19:00 Microsoft is readying the final version of Forefront Client Security , its long-awaited product to protect business computers against malicious code attacks. Forefront Client Security is designed to shield PCs and servers from threats such as spyware, viruses and rootkits. Microsoft announced the software in October 2005 and an early trial version has been available for ... More About: Business , Microsoft , Time , Soft
How to beat the rootkit
2007-04-27 08:17:00 If you, or your clients, use a computer to browse the internet, open emails or instant messages, or to download files or programs, you are at risk of infection. And one of the most dangerous and prevalent types of infection today is the rootkit. A rootkit is a collection of tools that enable administrator-level access ... More About: Beat , Rootkit , Root
To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt
2007-04-27 08:16:00 On those occasions when it is deemed appropriate for an authorized employee to transfer confidential data to a removable storage device, a best practice is to ensure that the data is encrypted while stored on the device to reduce the threat from prying eyes should the device be misplaced or lost. Before implementing a security solution ... More About: Crypt
Tool mines personal data from across Net
2007-04-27 08:14:00 Who needs to dive through dumpsters or steal snail mail when so many details on people are available simply by searching the Web? South African security researcher Roelof Temmingh, known for his work on security tools such as Wikto, is taking the search for personal information a step farther. Temmingh–who spoke at the CanSecWest security conference ... More About: Personal , Data , Tool , Mine , Across
What, When and How to Respond to a Data Breach
2007-04-27 08:06:00 There?s been a data breach. It happened 268 times during 2006 (according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse). Now, it?s happened to your organization. What do you do? Well, you might want to obey the 33 or so state laws that govern when and how you should notify the people named in those exposed files, gently ... More About: Data , Pond , When , Reach , Breach
Bug hunters face online apps dilemma
2007-04-27 08:05:00 Web applications pose a dilemma for bug hunters: how to test the security without going to jail? If hackers probe traditional software such as Windows or Word, they can do so on their own PCs. That isn’t true for Web applications, which run on servers operated by others. Testing the security there is likely illegal ... More About: Online , Face , Dilemma , Line , Hunters
Microsoft Urges Workaround as Worm Hits Unpatched DNS Flaw
2007-04-27 08:01:00 With a worm exploiting the unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Micro soft ’s Domain Name System Service mere days after it was discovered, Microsoft on Monday urged customers to apply workarounds the company had provided in its earlier security advisory. The W32/Delbot-AI worm, aka Nirbot or Rinbot, is infecting PCs via a vulnerability in the way the Windows ... More About: Worm , Soft , Patch
Botnets Battle Over Turf
More articles from this author:2007-04-27 07:50:00 More botnet-on-botnet turf wars have erupted — and intensified — over the past few months. Aside from the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks they launch against one another to disrupt their operations (like the recent DDOS battles between the Storm and Stration botnets), they also are constantly trying to hijack bots from one another. "Stealing is ... More About: Over , Battle , Botnet , Botnets , Turf 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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