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The Federal Bureau of Investigation – Capabilities and Service
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is an elite law enforcement organization. This article provides an overview of FBI teams, InfraGard and the FBI Citizens’ …
Guide to Online Antivirus Solutions Part 8: CA Online Virus 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 …
Attacking the Build through Cross-Build Injection
A poorly designed software build process can allow an attacker to insert malicious code into the final product or to take control of a build machine. This paper surveys …
Mac Security Freeware: Password Manager, Screen Locker and MD5 Checksum Checker
In a series of articles on Mac security freeware I will be covering a number of newly released security tools for Mac OS X. This time I am taking a look at KeyMaster 1.0.1 …
Solving the Keylogger Conundrum
The geek shall inherit the earth! This is the slogan that has reverberated out from Silicon Valley from the mid-90s, as we all realized that technology was, actually, fun, …
Beware the Default Password
During the course of a recent security audit I was rather surprised to find a critical system still running with a default password. The default password has long been the bug …
Guide to Online Antivirus Solutions Part 7: F-Secure Online Virus 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 …
Critical Steps to Secure Your Virtualized Environment
Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies in the data center today, and with good reason. The benefits are clear. Virtualization can help reduce the physical space of …
Interview with Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security
Jeremiah Grossman founded WhiteHat Security in 2001. Prior to WhiteHat, he was an Information Security Officer at Yahoo! responsible for performing security reviews on the …
The Right Formula for Data Leak Protection
Whether on the race track, on the web or in the boardroom, data leaks are invariably bad news. Just ask Ferrari and McLaren, the F1 giants embroiled in controversy over …
Interview with Edward Gibson, Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft UK
Mr. Gibson is the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft in the UK. This role comes on the heels of his retirement from a 20-year career as a Supervisory Special Agent with the …
Online Games and Fraud: Using Games as Bait
We all play games. Some play sports, some gamble, and for some people, life itself is a game. Even computer games have become an everyday phenomenon, with millions of people …