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The Story of DEFCON
Jeff Moss aka Dark Tangent, the founder of DEFCON and Black Hat, tells the history of the largest hacker conference and how it all got started. Find out more about the early …
Guide to Online Antivirus Solutions: NanoScan and TotalScan
Internet connections are getting faster every day, so online antivirus solutions have transformed from proof-of-concept into actual quality security services. I’ve been …
Top 5 Security and Networking Widgets for Mac OS X
This article presents 5 widgets that that enable you to perform various tasks quickly, straight off the Dashboard. AirTrafficControl AirTrafficControl is the most advanced …
Lock the Door and Make Sure Your Data is Protected
You would think that at some point in time your children will reach the age at which you can reason with them, I’m hoping it’s a year older than the oldest one is …
The Rules for Computer Forensics
The recovery of evidence from electronic devices is fast becoming another component of many the IT Manager’s remit. Electronic evidence gathered is often valuable …
How To Recover Forgotten Microsoft Word Passwords
Microsoft Office applications have an option for setting up different levels of passwords. They can be used for specific actions such as preventing reading, writing or adding …
Web Vulnerabilities in the Age of the iPhone
I’ve read lots of articles about hacking the iPhone lately. They’re mostly focused on exploring the hardware, circumventing the intended activation process, or …
Certifying Information Security Management Systems
An information security management system (ISMS) is focused on managing information security within an organization, a topic that is of growing concern to many organizations …
Secure Encryption and Backup with Knox
Mac geeks usually have the Disk Utility placed somewhere within easy reach ready to be fired up to make encrypted disk images whenever needed. However, there’s a more …
Open Source Filtering Solutions and the Spam Problem
Let us face it, modern e-mail communication relying on SMTP is fundamentally broken – there is no sender authentication. There are lot of countermeasures in form of …
Online Secure Backups with the Allmydata Web 2.0 Application
Backups are an important part of anyone’s computer life. As a result of Murphy’s Laws, you will lose your precious data in the most inappropriate situation, so …
Tunnelling HTTP Traffic Through XSS Channels
An XSS Channel is an interactive communication channel between two systems which is opened by an XSS attack. At a technical level, it is a type of AJAX application which can …