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How To Protect Your Laptop From Prying Eyes With a Privacy Filter
While attending the RSA Conference show last month in San Francisco, we met a lot of people and talked with a number of companies. We brought home a large list of gadgets, …
The Enigma Machine
The National Security Agency (NSA) had an Enigma machine in their booth at the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco. Here’s a video that shows the machine and provides …
HNS Podcast: Jeremiah Grossman’s top security conferences
Jeremiah Grossman, the founder and Chief Technology Officer of WhiteHat Security attends quite a number of security conferences around the globe. A couple of weeks ago we had …
Interview with Josh Corman, Principal Security Strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems
Joshua Corman serves as Principal Security Strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems. With more than ten years of experience in security and networking software …
Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation is Possible: Techniques and Implications
The automatic patch-based exploit generation problem is: given a program P and a patched version of the program P’, automatically generate an exploit for the potentially …
The Fundamentals of Physical Security
Deviant Ollam works as a network engineer and security consultant but his strongest love has always been teaching. A supporter of First Amendment rights who believes that the …
Changing Threats, Changing Solutions: A History of Viruses and Antivirus
It is more than 20 years since the first PC virus appeared. Since then, the nature of threats has changed significantly. Today’s threats are more complex than ever …
HNS Podcast: Penetration testing considerations
In this HNS podcast, Anothony Alves from CORE Security Technologies talks about penetration testing. He dicusses the things you should look for when considering doing a …
Hacking Second Life
At Black Hat in Amsterdam we caught up with Michael Thumann, CSO of ERNW. In this video he discusses Second Life hacking. Beyond being an online game Second Life is a growing …
Interview with Chris Sanders, Author of “Practical Packet Analysis”
Chris Sanders is a Senior Support Engineer for KeeFORCE, a technology consulting firm. Chris writes and speaks on various topics including packet analysis, network security, …
Data Loss Prevention: Where Do We Go From Here?
DLP is fast becoming one of the most overused yet misunderstood acronyms in an industry known for its cryptic abbreviations. The popular label for data loss prevention is …
HNS Podcast: InfoSec World Conference & Expo
Jean Hey, Vice President of MIS Trainining Institute talks about InfoSec World Conference & Expo, event that the Help Net Security staff attended in early March. In this …