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Survey: 77% of users employ the same password all over

ElcomSoft has conducted a survey on its customers, and discovered a major security hole in the choice of passwords among respondents. According to the survey, as many as 77% …

What to do when Google blocks your website?

I think that everyone has encountered, at least once in their Net surfing history, the following alerts next to a search result: “This site may harm your …

Netsparker: Web application security scanner

Netsparker can crawl, attack and identify vulnerabilities in all custom web applications regardless of the platform and the technology it’s built on, just like an actual …

BSA: 41% of software on personal computers is pirated

Individuals are turning to P2P networks and auction sites in staggering numbers to acquire or transfer illegal software and in doing so are harming the economy whilst exposing …

Implications of increasing malicious spam

Recent data from the Symantec monthly spam report suggests that the percentage of spam containing malware has increased. In September 2009, an average of 1.3 percent of all …

Metasm: Assembler, disassembler, compiler, linker and debugger

Metasm is a cross-architecture assembler, disassembler, compiler, linker and debugger. It is written in pure Ruby, with no dependency. It has some advanced features such as …

Sensitive data discovery and masking solution

Dataguise announced an integrated solution for comprehensive sensitive data discovery and masking featuring dgdiscover 3.0 and dgmasker 3.0. It is designed to find structured …

Vulnerability scanner SAINT 7.1.3 released

SAINT offers an integration of vulnerability assessment and penetration testing tools. New features in version 7.1.3: Added support for ntlmv2 authentication. SAINTwriter: …

Qsan’s 10GbE iSCSI storage solutions for cloud computing

This October, Qsan will present the latest redundant 10GbE iSCSI storage solutions – 3160TG and EP-3164D-GAS3 which are integrated with Qsan’s P500H 10GbE iSCSI …

YouTube used for video spam

Kaspersky Lab’s Content Filtering Research group recorded a mass mailing that contained a link directing users to a video advert on YouTube. The mass mailing contained a …

U.S. should focus on the protection of critical networks against cyber attacks

Because it will be difficult to prevent cyber attacks on critical civilian and military computer networks by threatening to punish attackers, the United States must focus its …

NASA hacker loses another extradition appeal

BBC News reports that another episode of the Gary McKinnon 7 year long extradition saga is revealed: he has been denied the possibility of appealing to the UK Supreme Court. …

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