Security challenges for the finance sector
As the migration to Windows 7 is proving a catalyst to organizations, banks are stepping up to the challenge to protect themselves against malware attacks abusing admin …
Microsoft releases seven bulletins
2012’s first Patch Tuesday has seven bulletins, including the postponed bulletin from December 2011 that addresses the BEAST style information disclosure. Talking about …
Windows 8 will have picture password sign in
As much as security experts would like for it to be otherwise, experience has taught us that no matter how many times some people are lectured on the use of complex passwords, …
Windows Phone 7.5 bug disables messaging option
A bug in the recently released Windows Phone 7.5 mobile OS can be exploited to make people’s phones lose the ability to send messages by cutting access to the messaging …
Microsoft patches 19 vulnerabilities
For the December Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released thirteen security bulletins that fix vulnerabilities targeting Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office. Three are marked as …
Sophos updates its endpoint protection
According to industry estimates, as many as 90 percent of successful attacks are against vulnerabilities in which a patch already exists. Despite this statistic, many …
Cain & Abel 4.9.43 released
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 …
Windows 8 to do away with constant restarts after updating
I don’t know a single Windows user who isn’t annoyed at the number of times the operating system requires a restart, and especially annoyed when the request …
Light Patch Tuesday features four bulletins
For the November Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released four bulletins that fix vulnerabilities targeting Windows. One is marked as critical, two are important, and the last one is …
Access Windows using your iPad and iPhone
Leostream Connect enables users to access secure and reliable Windows desktops and applications directly from their iOS device. This application allows an increasingly mobile …
Registry Decoder: Digital registry forensics
Registry Decoder is a free and open source tool for the acquisition, analysis, and reporting of registry contents. It comes with an online acquisition component and an offline …
Duqu installer exploits zero-day bug in Windows kernel
An installer for the Duqu Trojan has been discovered by CrySys, the Hungarian firm that initially discovered the threat, and the file has shed some light onto how the threat …