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Top 5 Firefox add-ons: Security testing and assessment

Test your sites and web applications and perform a security assessment/audit of your work with these handy tools: 1. Tamper Data Use it to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers …

Q&A: Passwords

Dmitry Sklyarov is an IT security analyst at Elcomsoft. In this interview he discusses strong and insecure passwords, the compromise between usability and security as well as …

Q&A: Wireshark

Gerald Combs works with the developers of WinPcap at CACE Technologies as the Director of Open Source Projects, and is the lead developer of Wireshark. In this interview, he …

Best practices for DNS security

Securing the DNS must be a priority because it is so central to the proper functioning of every IP network. Employing the best possible protections for the DNS will pay huge …

Spam evolution: September 2009

Spam in email traffic The amount of spam detected in email traffic averaged 86.3% in September 2009. A low of 83.3% was recorded on 18 September with a peak value of 91.3% …

Looking back at 2009 through SQL injection goggles

The earliest public mention I could find of SQL injection (“piggybacking SQL statements’ as the author put it) was from someone who called himself Rain Forest …

Q&A: Web application security

Robert Abela is a Technical Manager at Acunetix and in this interview he discusses Web application attack vectors, the impact of Cross-Site Scripting, future threats and …

Q&A: Ubuntu 9.10 security

Kees Cook is the security engineer and Gerry Carr is the head of platform marketing at Canonical. In this interview they discuss the security improvements in Ubuntu 9.10, the …

Ask the social engineer: Practice

One reader wrote in asking: “How can one practice social engineering before using it in the wild?” Answering is Chris “loganWHD” Hadnagy, the lead …

Embracing tokenization: Payment without pain

Today, it’s expected that merchants accept electronic payments. It’s more than expected that those payments are secure. No data leaks or breaches of any kind. The …

Q&A: Hard drive encryption

Dave Anderson is Director, Strategic Planning for Seagate and is involved in developing the opportunities for hard drives to contribute to system security. In this interview …

5 handy WordPress security plug-ins

WordPress is one of today’s most popular publishing platforms. Like any other system, it needs security. What follows is a list of 5 practical plug-ins that extend its …

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