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Reducing Shoulder-surfing by Using Gaze-based Password Entry
Shoulder-surfing – using direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone’s shoulder, to get passwords, PINs and other sensitive personal information …
Security Economics
Information security has finally become mainstream. It is almost a recognized profession, with its own areas of specialization: network security, audit, incident response, …
5 Security Widgets for the Opera Browser
Widgets are Web programs you can run right on your desktop using Opera 9. This article introduces security-related widgets that will enhance your Opera experience. …
Designing a PCI-Compliant Log Monitoring System
Log monitoring activities are an integral part of Requirement 10 of the PCI Data Security Standard and it can be difficult to understand how the different logging portions of …
Guide to Online Antivirus Solutions Part 5: BitDefender Online Scanner
Internet connections are getting faster every day, so online antivirus solutions transformed from proof of concepts into actual quality security services. Lately I have been …
Super Ninja Privacy Techniques for Web App Developers
If I keep my documents on Google Docs, my mail on Yahoo Mail, my bookmarks on del.icio.us, and my address book on .Mac, is there any point in talking about the privacy of my …
MacNikto: Working with the Nikto Web Server Security Scanner on the Mac
Nikto is an open source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3300 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, …
Know Your Enemy: Malicious Web Servers
Today, many attackers are part of organized crime with the intent to defraud their victims. Their goal is to deploy malware on a victim’s machine and to start collecting …
Guide to Online Antivirus Solutions Part 4: Norman SandBox Malware Analyzer
Internet connections are getting faster every day, so online antivirus solutions transformed from proof of concepts into actual quality security services. Lately I have been …
Malware Evolution: April – June 2007
The events that took place during the first six months of 2007 have shown us that the direction in which threats are evolving is from social engineering to the increased usage …
Working with the iStumbler Wireless Discovery Tool
iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X. It provides plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services. The application is …
Interview with Christen Krogh, Opera Software’s VP of Engineering
Christen Krogh is responsible for all software development at Opera. Krogh received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Glasgow University and his Ph.D from …