Expert analysis

The following document discusses the use of key iterations and cryptographic salts to stop dictionary attacks in password based encryption (symmetric cryptography). One of the …

One frequently ignored aspect of corporate antivirus protection is the built-in file filtering facilities that such protection normally includes, and which represents a …

Dave Wreski is the founder and CEO of Guardian Digital, which he formed in May 1999 to solve the mounting security issues related to enterprises world-wide. With his vast …

Managing risk used to be straightforward process, but all that is about to change for the world’s central banks and their IT departments. Basel II, the accord which …

Neil Stinchcombe, public relations contact for this year’s Infosecurity Europe, dropped us an e-mail with some of the statistics on this highly successful event. …

Who is Mark Komarinski? Introduce yourself to our readers. A nice open-ended question. Professionally, I’m a Senior Linux System Administrator for Harvard Medical …

The document is aimed at aiding the planning, creation and development of CSIRTs: teams trained specifically to deal with IT security incidents. One of the principal tasks of …

This is an excerpt from “A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8“. An interview with the author is available here. Public Key Encryption In order to use public key …

Trustix team announced that Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 beta 2 (aka Hurricane) is available for download. As this is a beta release, it is not intended for usage on production …

Qazi Ahmed from PakCERT sent us a commentary on the Microsoft .NET Passport vulnerability announced yesterday on several security lists: “This is to clearify the issue …

Introduce Digital Persona. When was the company started and with what mission? Digital Persona was founded in 1996 with the intention to bring biometric (fingerprint …

From the early viruses, created as experiments in the eighties, to the latest malicious code, one of the biggest worries for all computer users is the threat of viruses …