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Will the U.S. President have the authority to shut down the Internet?
Two important bills (773 and 778) have been introduced in the U.S. Senate while the whole nation is preoccupied with health care legislation. The Examiner reports that if …
Identity theft prevention quiz from ITAC
The Identity Theft Assistance Center (ITAC) has made available an identity theft prevention quiz, and has offered a 6 months identity monitoring service for free to the first …
Click fraud surge linked to “Bahama” botnet
Click Forensics announced it has identified an unusually large spike in click fraud traffic coming from a new botnet that appears to be eluding the filters of even the most …
New backbone solution to relieve strain of bandwidth-intensive applications
Alcatel-Lucent introduced a converged IP/Optical backbone network solution designed to relieve the strain on service providers’ core networks caused by the explosive …
Photos: BruCON conference, opening day
BruCON is a brand new security and hacker conference that is taking place right now in Brussels, Belgium. Help Net Security and (IN)SECURE Magazine are proud to be media …
Cell phone data acquisition, analysis & forensics tool
Susteen announced Secure View 2 with svProbe, a forensics solution which enables law enforcement and corporate security consultants to acquire, analyze and report cell phone …
Single sign-on to services and applications in the cloud
Wave Systems announced the launch of id.wave.com, the beta of an identity service that enables strong authentication and single sign-on to Web services and applications in the …
Snort 2.8.5 is now available
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 …
Google acquires reCAPTCHA
In an entry on the official Google blog, Luis von Ahn, co-founder of reCAPTCHA, and Will Cathcart, Google Product Manager announced that: The acquisition is not about …
Jet-set’s “Facebook” hacked
Ever heard of ASmallWorld? Dubbed “Snobster” by critics, it is an exclusive invitation-only online social network service similar to Friendster. To quote their …
Gigabit speed network encryption appliance
Engage has announced the Black-Door GIG Encryptor, the latest in their line of packet encryption products for both private and public network security. It enables enterprises …
US security policies for IT executives traveling to China
Apparently, the US Government doesn’t want to take any risks. According to CRN and Mark Bregman, CTO at Symantec, they look with suspicion on everything that comes from …