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Wi-Fi Certified 802.11n program tests will not change for September update

The Wi-Fi Alliance will not change the baseline requirements of its 802.11n certification program, and plans to make only small optional additions to coincide with the …

Ruby on Rails 2.3.3: Touching, faster JSON, bug fixes

Ruby on Rails version 2.3.3 fixes a lot of bugs and introduces a handful of new features. Active Record touch is a convenient method to update a record’s timestamp and …

RainbowCrack 1.4 released

RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique. It cracks hashes with rainbow tables. This version focus …

Joomla 1.5.13 security release now available

Joomla 1.5.13 is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately. One low-level and two moderate-level security issues were fixed in this release. …

Rackspace Cloud APIs now open source

Rackspace has open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Developers are now free to copy, …

Admin gets prison time for hacking former employer’s network

The former director of information technology for a non-profit organ and tissue donation center was sentenced to two years in prison for hacking into her former …

Sourcefire and Qualys deliver real-time risk analysis

Sourcefire and Qualys announced that Sourcefire has become a Qualys Solution Partner and the companies have integrated the Sourcefire 3D System with QualysGuard. The …

RSA SecurID software token for iPhone

RSA released the RSA SecurID Software Token for iPhone Devices that enables an iPhone to be used as an RSA SecurID authenticator, providing convenient and cost-effective …

Social networking sites must improve security

Sophos has called upon social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook to do more to protect their millions of users, as new research is published examining the first …

ISACA leader calls for changes to information security

At ISACA’s International Conference in Los Angeles this morning, security professional John Pironti called for a sweeping change in how enterprises deal with information …

Microsoft releases Threat Analysis and Modeling 3.0 beta

The Microsoft Threat Analysis and Modeling (TAM) tool allows non-security subject matter experts to enter already known information including business requirements and …

Protegrity unveils new version of data protection platform

Protegrity released the Protegrity Data Protection System (DPS) 5. It enables enterprises to select, deploy and easily manage a unified set of technologies that best meet …

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