A Look at Security Oriented Live CDs
A number of free open source security related Live CDs are available for the security administrator looking to further secure their network. An article over at SecurityFocus looks at some of these....
View ArticleMicrosoft Developing Windows OneCare Service
Microsoft is getting ready to release a beta of its Windows OneCare service, which combines firewall, anti-spyware, anti-virus, backup and restore, file repair, hard drive clean up, defragmentation,...
View ArticleCheck Point Releases NGX Unified Security Management Platform
Check Point Software Technologies is announcing NGX, a new unified management platform for its network perimeter, intrusion-detection and Web application security devices. The company is also releasing...
View ArticleOpenBSD 3.7 Released
The OpenBSD project has released version 3.7 of OpenBSD, a free and highly secure open source operating system. New features in this release include support for Zaurus and SGI platforms, enhanced...
View ArticleUsing OpenVPN to Secure Your Wireless Network
Informit.com has published a very interesting article explaining how to use the free open source OpenVPN package to help secure your wireless network. This is done by implementing a VPN connection...
View ArticleCitigroup Loses Personal Information of 3.9 Million Customers
Citigroup has said that it lost a computer tape containing the personal information, including social security numbers, of 3.9 million customers of its CitiFinancial subsidiary. According to company...
View ArticleSecuring Web Services With Mod_Securty On Apache
ONLamp.com has published an article explaining how to use the mod_security module in Apache to secure web services at the WSDL and SOAP level, without having to modify the web services code itself....
View ArticleNew Features in Cisco PIX Firewall 7.0
Informit.com has published a concise article detailing the major new features of Cisco's PIX Firewall 7.0. These features include: improved packet inspection engines for stateless protocols; flexible...
View ArticleInformation on 40 Million Credit Cards Stolen from Payment Processor
According to news sources, a hacker infiltrated the computers of CardSystems Solutions Inc., a third-party payment processor, and may have stolen up to 40 million credit card numbers. However, personal...
View ArticleIndian Call Centers Implicated in ID Theft Crime Wave
An investigation by the UK newspaper The Sun has revealed that call center workers in India have been regularly selling bank customer account information to criminals engaged in ID theft. Companies...
View ArticleOpenBSD 3.8 Released
Open source operating system OpenBSD 3.8 was released today. New features include improved hardware support, new tools for RAID and IPSec management, enhanced wireless capabilities, support for the UDF...
View ArticleSony Music CDs Installing Rootkits
According to an investigative article at SysInternals.com, Sony music CDs using digital rights management (DRM) features contain a rootkit that installs silently in your Windows operating system when...
View ArticleReview of Three Free Anti-Virus Software Packages for Windows
Softpedia has published a review of the three most popular free anti-virus software packages for Windows. They include Avira's AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic 7, Grisoft's AVG Free Edition 7, and...
View ArticleGuide to Identity Theft Prevention
YourCreditAdvisor just published an excellent guide to preventing identity theft from happening to you. The guide details which information can be given out freely, which information has medium...
View ArticleWindows XP Contains Random Number Generator Security Bug
Microsoft officials confirmed late Tuesday that Windows XP contains a significant random number generator bug. According to Computerworld:"The researchers, Benny Pinkas from the University of Haifa and...
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