RSnake releases “Detecting Malice” e-book
World-renowned security expert Robert Hansen aka RSnake relesed a 300+ pages technical PDF book titled Detecting Malice. The material is intended for anyone that maintains, …
TippingPoint delivers new intrusion prevention system platform
TippingPoint announced the TippingPoint N-Platform, a new intrusion prevention system (IPS) platform with a Threat Suppression Engine (TSE) that adds capacity for deep packet …
Cain & Abel 4.9.35 now available
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted …
Controlled access Web portals now prime target of cybercriminals
As news of the Guardian web site hack broke on Sunday, identity information on consumers and companies continues to be a prime target for criminal hackers. “As we …
Video: Online privacy – Industry self-regulation in practice
In this video, Aleecia M. McDonald speaks about industry self-regulation for online privacy. What is the user burden if people read online privacy policies? How long would it …
Nigeria shuts down 800 scam websites
The Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has shut down no fewer than 800 scam websites and arrested members of 18 syndicates behind the fraudulent scheme in a …
Suspected European cyber pirates denied Internet access without court order
The verdict is in: Europeans can be cut off the Internet for persistent file-sharing, and it can be done without a court order. According to ISPreview, the decision comes as a …
Snort 2.8.5.1 released
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 …
96 percent of Americans in favor of video surveillance to counteract terrorism
A recent Harris Poll survey indicates that 96 percent of U.S. citizens feel the federal government and law enforcement agencies should be able to use video surveillance in an …
Botnets dominate click fraud
Click Forensics released advertising audience quality figures for the third quarter 2009. Traffic across more than 300 ad networks is reflected in the data. Key findings for …
CentOS 5.4 released
Enterprise-class Linux distribution CentOS 5.4 for i386 and x86_64 architectures is now available. CentOS has numerous advantages over some of the other clone projects …
Anti-virus programs certified for Windows 7
ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business, has certified five vendors in detection and cleaning following its first round of testing security software designed …