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Friday, 2 Dec, 2011
Hakin9 12/11: TOR Project
Latest News From IT Security World By Armando Romeo, eLearnSecurity and ID Theft Protect Duqu: The Precursor Stuxnet Attack By Rebecca Wynn Duqu is essentially the precursor to a future Stuxnet-like attack. The threat was written by the same authors, or those that have access to the Stuxnet source code, and the recovered samples have been created after the lastdiscovered version of Stuxnet. Duqu’s purpose is to gather intelligence data and assets from entities such as industrial infrastructure and system manufacturers, amongst others not in the industrial sector, in order to more easily conduct a future attack against another third party. The attackers are
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Tuesday, 29 Nov, 2011
Advanced SystemCare 5 Released!
Advanced SystemCare 5: IObit Debuts The New Release Of Its Flagship Software Suite.
Advanced SystemCare is one of the most downloaded Windows utility programs; version 5 of the software sees new functionality and features, making it one of the most comprehensive PC maintenance and optimization suites available today. SAN FRANCISCO15th November 2011–The number of PC users worldwide continues to grow at a tremendous rate, and as the clock ticks towards 2012, owning a PC is almost an essential part of life in the 21
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Sunday, 27 Nov, 2011
U.S. government deny reports of water utility cyber attack
The U.S government (FBI and DHS) claim that no cyber attack whether from the US mainland or overseas actually happened as repored in the media last week. The media say that 'attackers' were able to burn out
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Sunday, 27 Nov, 2011
HTTP query request vulnerability in iTunes Apple Software Updater
A German company called Gamme International has reported that remote monitoring software designed to exploit a vulnerability in Apple iTunes can indeed infect a PC system. FinFisher spyware software uses a vulnerability in the iTunes update system
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Sunday, 27 Nov, 2011
Facebook is following me from website to website
Back in March of this year I (Julian Evans blog) wrote a post about the Facebook ‘Like’ button JavaScript threat. In it I highlighted how easy it was for Facebook to collect data for internal analysis (i.e.improve
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Sunday, 27 Nov, 2011
HTTPS encryption increased for Gmail and Google+
Google already offers HTTPS as default for Gmail and encrypted search. Google has now moved on and is now enabling "forward secrecy" by default. Forward secrecy (or PFS) ensures that a session key cannot be compromised if
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Sunday, 27 Nov, 2011
Free mobile apps collecting your device data
I've (Julian Evans blog) just completed some research of some free mobile apps across BlackBerry, iOS and Android. What I found didn't surprise me, but it may surprise my readers. Free apps are really not that free
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Thursday, 24 Nov, 2011
MacX DVDRipper Pro
I'm sure I'm not the only one that is tired of booting up a Windows machine or VM whenever you want to rip a disc. Ripping in Linux is still a little cumbersome and usually there is about a 50/50 chance
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Thursday, 24 Nov, 2011
Hakin9 Special Issue – Get Rid of Spam!
DOWNLOAD FOR FREE! Inside this issue you will find articles on anti-spam, email filtering and archiving. You will also get familiar with Roaring Penguin's producs, sources of company creation and its founder itself. CONTENTS: March of the Roaring Penguin By Sophia Li Founded about a
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Monday, 21 Nov, 2011
Exploiting Software 03/11Password, What Password?
Malware Analisys for Windows Systems Administrators Using Sysinternal Tools By Dennis Distler Today administrators deal with malware infections almost daily. Often malware is customized for specific organizations, departments in an organization, and even individuals in the organization. This type of malware typically is
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Monday, 21 Nov, 2011
Call for Chapter Proposals
Call for chapter proposals for the book titled: Theory and Prctice of Cryptography Solutions for Secure Information Systmes has been announced. This book will focus on cryptography and its use for security of IS. Manuscripts will be expected to cover
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