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Nigerian scam – the UK style

A new variation of the Nigerian money scam uses Costa Coffee and their “problems” with US payments. Of course, you are here to “help”. Dear Sir/Ma, My …

New MIT’s Kerberos for Windows

The MIT Kerberos Development Team and Secure Endpoints Inc. announced the release of MIT’s Kerberos for Windows product, Version 3.2.2. This release requires 32-bit …

Patent filed for revolutionary technique to quickly recover lost passwords

ElcomSoft has discovered and filed for a US patent on a breakthrough technology that will decrease the time that it takes to perform password recovery by a factor of up to 25. …

New Firefox release fixes 8 security vulnerabilities

New version of the Firefox web browser was released a couple of days ago. Firefox 2.0.0.8 fixes a couple of known security vulnerabilities:

Stanford offers Advanced Computer Security certificate online

Stanford University now offers the Advanced Computer Security certificate program completely online – a frontline defense against the changing landscape of Internet …

Code analysis goes further with Fortify SCA 5.0

Fortify Software has introduced Fortify SCA 5.0, the fifth generation of its award-winning source code analysis software. Fortify SCA is the industry’s most powerful …

Book contest: 5 security titles that rock – Winners announced!

The lucky winners in our “5 security titles that rock!” contest are: 1) Karl H. – “Virtual Honeypots” 2) Derrius M. – “Fuzzing” …

Two FREE CSI 2007 three-day conference passes for HNS readers – Winners announced!

Our randomizer picked two winners of complimentary CSI 2007 access passes. They are: 1) Ryan T. 2) Carl M. Information regarding the passes will be sent over e-mail. …

New technology removes 40-bit Adobe PDF encryption in minutes

ElcomSoft has released v. 4.0 of the Enterprise version of its award-winning Advanced PDF Password Recovery software. This program makes it easy to remove both password …

Honeynet Project results and trends

Honeynet Project released their status report for 2007 fiscal year (July 2006 – June 2007).  This annual report covers the activities of the overall organization and …

Secure USB flash drive with a self-destruct sequence

IronKey recently launched Enterprise Special Edition of their secure flash drive designed for use on sensitive government, military and enterprise networks. The IronKey: …

MP3 spam – the new kid on the block

Spammers are back with a new trick, this time round sending messages with MP3 attachments that contain the latest pump-and-dump stock scams.   One sample identified this …

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