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Openwall GNU/*/Linux (or Owl for short) is a free security-enhanced operating system with Linux and GNU software as its core, compatible with other major distributions of …

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 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 is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted …

Cloud computing has changed the audit and risk profile of data systems in most organizations. Whilst the economics of going down the cloud route for data storage are highly …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …