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Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 was released over the weekend which provides several bug-fixes and one security fix. It should be fully compatible with all prior 2.3.x releases and can be …

Pkviz is a tool for plotting and cycling through and animating a series of network packets captured by tcpdump. What makes it unique is that the packets’ structure is …

ENISA has just published a seven minute video overview of the recent NIS Summer School 2009. The short documentary follows up on the topic of this year’s event – …

Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between legitimate online offers and malicious spam. In this day and age, you can be pretty sure that financial and government …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Workers stealing data for competitive edge 85% of people admit they know …

Anti-virus software has already been made available for various mobile phones. Security firm F-Secure offers protection for phones with Windows Mobile and Symbian and …

Trend Labs warn about a seeming Koobface variant – TROJ_VILSEL.EA – that targets Skype. It steals information from the user’s Skype profile: login …

A new paper by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) focuses on authentication risks with European eID Cards. It analyzes 7 vulnerabilities, identifies …

Amazon’s coveted Kindle e-reader just got a firmware update that among other things, gives users the ability to read native PDF files. Naturally we had to investigate …

A good rule of thumb when it comes to unsolicited email offers or announcements should be: If it’s too good to be true, it probably is. Add to this grammatical and/or …

Cloud computing – what is it exactly and what benefits does it bring? A new white paper from ISACA describes how enterprises can achieve greater efficiencies and …

It’s a little bit ironic when the thing that you put in place to protect you from certain attacks, it’s the thing that, in the end, makes you vulnerable to them. …