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. …
FIPS-validated USB drives with AES 256-bit encryption
Lexar Media announced Lexar JumpDrive SAFE S3000 FIPS and JumpDrive SAFE S3000 USB flash drives. The FIPS 140-2, Level 3-validated, enterprise-class drives, co-developed with …
Sun releases new update to Solaris 10 operating system
Sun Microsystems announced the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System. The Solaris 10 OS has been extended with new performance and power efficiency enhancements, more streamlined …
Quantum cryptography network running for 12,000 hours
The SwissQuantum testbed network was set up in Geneva by the University Of Geneva, the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland and the company id Quantique in …
FBI Director almost got phished
Those of us who have had the good fortune and sense not to fall victim to a phishing attack, may wonder at those who have. And even get mad sometimes – if there were no …
Massive click fraud ring shut down
Anchor Intelligence has identified and effectively shut down DormRing1, believed to be the largest click fraud ring ever uncovered. The fraud ring consisted of thousands of …
Grsync: GUI for rsync 0.9.2 released
Grsync is an open source rsync GUI. It can be effectively used to synchronize local directories and it supports remote targets as well (even though it doesn’t support …
Sun’s new versions of Role Manager and Directory Server Enterprise Edition
Sun Microsystems announced new versions of Sun Role Manager software and Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition. Customers will benefit from increased business transparency …
Adobe Reader and Acrobat security update coming
There have been reports of an unpatched critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 and earlier that is being exploited in the wild. Although the vulnerability …
Webmail phishing attack only the beginning
In the wake of the news reports this week of the large-scale webmail phishing attacks, much of the coverage has surrounded the compromise of email accounts which, according to …
Web Application Security Scanner Evaluation Criteria 1.0 released
Web Application Security Scanners are automated tools to test web applications for common security problems such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection, directory traversal, …
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