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Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol …

Most businesses, despite having numerous mission-critical applications accessible via their websites, fail to allocate sufficient financial and technical resources to secure …

A survey of 1000 commuters in London has found that a tidal wave of credit card fraud and Identity theft is sweeping the UK as 44 % of people said they have suffered from …

Netgear announced the ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall (SRX5308), the first business firewall to provide in excess of 1 Gbps performance for under $500, which …

Organizations are investing to improve their security processes, but very few have automated their compliance procedures. This is one of the findings of a research report by …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and podcasts: OWASP releases list of top 10 web application risks OWASP has released an …

The VLC development team introduced a new version of its ‘Goldeneye’ branch. This release bridges the gap between version 1.0.5 and the upcoming 1.1.0 VLC release. …

SplashID 5.3 includes a unique new pattern-based option for accessing a user’s secure database of passwords, web logins, account numbers, PINs, and other sensitive …

Over seventy percent of corporations have visibility into employee use of social media, according to a recent survey from nCircle. The online survey of 257 security …

As evidenced by the tweets on their official Safety account, Twitter is warning their users not to open emails purportedly coming from Twitter Support (support@twitter.com) …

phpass is a portable public domain password hashing framework for use in PHP applications. It is meant to work with PHP 3 and above, and it has actually been tested with at …

Rapid7 introduced Metasploit Express, a comprehensive penetration testing solution built on the open source Metasploit Framework. Metasploit Express is designed specifically …