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Open source tool detects videoconferencing equipment vulnerabilities
Videoconferencing equipment has been in the news recently for its potential for use by attackers to snoop on confidential company meetings, view charts mounted on meeting room …
Open source password manager gets two-factor authentication
Yubico announced a successful implementation of YubiKey two-factor authentication with the free, open source password manager software Password Safe. The joint solution offers …
Web app security scanner Netsparker 2.1 released
Netsparker can crawl, attack and identify vulnerabilities in all custom web applications regardless of the platform and the technology it’s built on, just like an actual …
Satellite telephony encryption cracked
Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. Researchers at the Horst G?¶rtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have …
(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 33 released
(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 33 has been released today. Table of contents: …
Apache Shiro: Java security framework
Apache Shiro is a Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. With Shiro’s API, you can secure any …
Security analysis tool Trisul 2.3 released
Trisul is a new kind of network monitor that supplements fine grained traffic metering with flows, packets, and alerts. You can carry out any kind of network and security …
PoC exploits for Linux privilege escalation bug published
The publication of proof-of-concept exploit code for a recently spotted privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2012-0056 ) in the Linux kernel has left Linux vendors scrambling to …
Arachni: Web application security scanner framework
Arachni is an open source Web application security scanner framework, a modular framework that allows fast, accurate and flexible vulnerability assessment. In order to …
FreeBSD 9.0 released
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0 that adds many new features. The release is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, …
The Linux Command Line
Thanks to user-friendly distributions like Ubuntu, more people are running Linux than ever before. But many users stick to the GUI and point and click their way through tasks, …
Tails: Live system for preserving privacy and anonymity
Tails is a live system that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leave no …