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Patent filed for revolutionary technique to quickly recover lost passwords
ElcomSoft has discovered and filed for a US patent on a breakthrough technology that will decrease the time that it takes to perform password recovery by a factor of up to 25. …
New Firefox release fixes 8 security vulnerabilities
New version of the Firefox web browser was released a couple of days ago. Firefox 2.0.0.8 fixes a couple of known security vulnerabilities:
Stanford offers Advanced Computer Security certificate online
Stanford University now offers the Advanced Computer Security certificate program completely online – a frontline defense against the changing landscape of Internet …
Code analysis goes further with Fortify SCA 5.0
Fortify Software has introduced Fortify SCA 5.0, the fifth generation of its award-winning source code analysis software. Fortify SCA is the industry’s most powerful …
High-Level Reverse Engineering
This paper aims to present a methodical framework for high-level reverse engineering. The methodology is a culmination of existing tools and techniques within the IT security …
Book contest: 5 security titles that rock – Winners announced!
The lucky winners in our “5 security titles that rock!” contest are: 1) Karl H. – “Virtual Honeypots” 2) Derrius M. – “Fuzzing” …
Two FREE CSI 2007 three-day conference passes for HNS readers – Winners announced!
Our randomizer picked two winners of complimentary CSI 2007 access passes. They are: 1) Ryan T. 2) Carl M. Information regarding the passes will be sent over e-mail. …
New technology removes 40-bit Adobe PDF encryption in minutes
ElcomSoft has released v. 4.0 of the Enterprise version of its award-winning Advanced PDF Password Recovery software. This program makes it easy to remove both password …
Honeynet Project results and trends
Honeynet Project released their status report for 2007 fiscal year (July 2006 – June 2007). This annual report covers the activities of the overall organization and …
Secure USB flash drive with a self-destruct sequence
IronKey recently launched Enterprise Special Edition of their secure flash drive designed for use on sensitive government, military and enterprise networks. The IronKey: …
MP3 spam – the new kid on the block
Spammers are back with a new trick, this time round sending messages with MP3 attachments that contain the latest pump-and-dump stock scams.  One sample identified this …
IBM DB2 gets database encryption capabilities
Vormetric partnered with IBM to deliver database encryption capabilities for DB2 on Windows, Linux and Unix. IBM will offer Vormetric’s highly acclaimed data security …