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Everybody knows that it is easier to hit a stationary target than a fast-moving target. Yet, an enormous amount of resources are being used to encrypt data in motion, while …

A computer system should provide confidentiality, integrity and assurance against intrusion attempts. However, due to increased connectivity on the Internet, more and more …

In universities around the world, a question has arisen about computer studies syllabuses: should students be taught how to create viruses and malicious code? There are …

Trustix team announced that Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 beta 3 (aka Lightning) is available for download. As this is a beta release, it is not intended for usage on production …

Is your Web server being used as a Spam Mail relay? It could be, and it doesn’t even need a daemon listening on the SMTP port. How’s it done, and how do you …

There are many tools today that are used for remote active operating system fingerprinting. They all have their own fingerprinting techniques. This paper gives an in-depth …

The need to transmit secret or sensitive information has been around for a long time, and cryptography, in one shape or form, has been around for almost as long. The Spartans …

On July 1, 2003, Senate bill 1386 becomes Civil Code 1798.82. In a nutshell, the law states that any person or company doing business in the state of California is responsible …

Ivan Arce, Chief Technology Officer of Core Security Technologies, sets the technical direction for the company and is responsible for overseeing the development, testing and …

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the ninth public release of the Apache 2.0 HTTP Server. This Announcement notes the …

The Emmes Group, a San Francisco-based strategy consulting and market research firm, conducted an in-depth market research survey at the RSA 2003 Conference in San Francisco. …

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 …