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The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) announced the WASC Web Application Security Statistics Project 2008, a collaborative industry wide effort to pool together …

Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch not only feature the world’s most powerful mobile operating system, they also usher in a new standard of human-computer interaction …

In a move that surprised everyone (but mostly Senator Joe Simitian, the author of the final version), Governor Schwarzenegger put a veto on a bill meant to update the famous …

OpenBSD 4.6 is here. To get the files for this release either order a CDROM or check out one of the FTP page for a list of mirrors. Some of the new features are: New/extended …

Nikto is an open source Web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, …

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted …

Following last month’s announcement from the Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission about his intention to push for official rules that would prevent ISPs …

It is a well known fact that the Chinese government is a big fan of Internet censorship. The “Great Firewall of China” (a system that blocks content by preventing …

Insidious – How Trusted Employees Steal Millions and Why It’s So Hard for Banks to Stop Them is a new book that provides insight into a critical problem plaguing …

In recent years, people have become more familiar with the term “social engineering”, the use of deception or impersonation to gain unauthorized access to …

Like the overwhelming majority of Google’s “products”, Google Wave (a real-time communication and collaboration tool) seems to be a really handy and …

The critical patch update coming on Tuesday October 18th contains 38 security vulnerability fixes across hundreds of Oracle products. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed …