New Oracle security product: Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 10g
Oracle announced general availability of Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 10g, a new integrated offering within Oracle Identity Management and a component of Oracle Fusion …
Halloween spam tries to spirit away personal information
IT security and control firm Sophos has intercepted an attempt by spammers to hijack Halloween festivities to grab personal information from innocent internet users. Sophos …
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 …