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on : Friday, 5 Apr, 2013

Overview of mobile platforms (March 2013)

This article describes hardware and software division on the mobile platform market. “Mobile platform” means mass handheld devices with an autonomous power source designated for solving a large variety of general tasks: entertainment, communications and business. This article does not examine personal desktop computers and their portable versions (notebooks/netbooks/etc.) Information in the article was gathered from public sources available as of the beginning of 2013. Information in the article is indicated taking into consideration software developers’ demand for mobile devices.

Processor architectures

ARM

ARM architecture was developed by ARM Holdings on 1983 as the foundation for a simple and effective processor. The set of
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on : Friday, 29 Mar, 2013

How to Detect System Intrusions

  How to Detect System Intrusions By Almantas, the founder and CTO of Demyo, CISSP, GSNA, GSEC, CEH, MCDST, MCP, Net+ and Sec+ First things first, detecting system intrusion its not the same as Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention System (IDS/IPS). We want to detect system intrusion once attackers passed all defensive technologies in the company, such as IDS/IPS mentioned above, full packet capture devices with analysts behind them, firewalls, physical security guards, and all other preventive technologies and techniques. Many preventing technologies are using blacklisting [1] most of the time, and thus that’s why they fail. Blacklisting is allowing everything by default,
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on : Wednesday, 19 Dec, 2012

Vulnerabilities and Exploits

Vulnerabilities & Exploits - Hackin9 Security Magazine - POWERPOINT- Dear all, Starting with passion in our youth makes them part of our lives. What is more, if knowledge and practical skills are the passion, it makes us, after some
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on : Thursday, 18 Oct, 2012

Incapsula Review

If you own or manage a website, two of your biggest concerns are keeping it secure and making it faster. Thanks to Incapsula, a cloud-based service for SME's, these needs can be fully met with a simple setup and
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on : Monday, 15 Oct, 2012

Wireshark: Sharks on the Wire – Hakin9 On Demand Digest 02/2012

Hakin9 Followers! We've come up with quite a treat for you for the beginning of the week! Look through our Pre-Premiere Hakin9 On Demand issue. What's in the issue? Wireshark – Sharks on the Wire, that is,
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on : Friday, 5 Oct, 2012

8 Must-have Features in Your Web Security Solution

Internet access is a remarkable tool that empowers users in ways nothing else can, but free and open Internet access sometimes comes with a price too high to pay, so companies implement web security solutions to mitigate the risks
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on : Wednesday, 12 Sep, 2012

Wombat’s Security Training Platform gives Security Officers the Educational Tools to Improve Employee Response to Cyber-Attack

Wombat Security Technologies

- Thanks to Lorraine Kauffman-Hall Recently named as a finalist of the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Tech 50 Award as well as a finalist for the Golden Bridge Business Award as a security awareness and training innovator, Wombat Security Technologies
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on : Tuesday, 11 Sep, 2012

Old Operating Systems Present New Security Challenges

Fortinet Research Shows it’s Smarter (and Safer) to Migrate to a new OS, Rather than Trying to Maintain Legacy Systems

By Derek Manky In June 2008, Microsoft officially announced that it planned to discontinue support for its popular but
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on : Thursday, 23 Aug, 2012

Wombat Security Technologies – Why Most Cyber Security Training Doesn’t Work

Why Most Cyber Security Training Doesn’t Work There’s been a lot of debate lately about whether or not cyber security training is worth the investment. To engage in this debate, it is important that all parties have a common definition of
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on : Friday, 11 May, 2012

StaffCop – activity monitoring software & network performance monitoring. Remote traffic monitoring tool, employee monitoring software & spying program

The majority of companies out there today are trying their best to use the power of social media and its large user base to their advantage. If your company is utilizing social media websites chances are your employees are allowed
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on : Thursday, 10 May, 2012

What can a network scanner do for you?

When it comes to network security there are a lot of choices as to what software you actually use. You can apply firewalls, antivirus software, internet access controls and network scanners. Seeing where the network scanner fits into this
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on : Tuesday, 3 Apr, 2012

7 Reasons to Use a Network Scanner

7 Reasons to Use a Network Scanner

Two pieces of advice I was given long ago by a security guru are “Know your enemy” and “Know yourself”. ‘Your enemy’ is the malicious attacker who is scanning your network