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In recent years the Web browser has increasingly become targeted as an infection vector for vulnerable hosts. Classic service-centric vulnerability exploitation required attackers to scan for and remotely connect to vulnerable hosts (typically servers) in
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According to a study of 106 major U.S. airports and 800 business travelers published by the Ponemon Institute and Dell Computer, about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports each week. Only 30 percent of travelers ever recover the lost devices. Nearly half o
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Higher Education leads all industries in loss of personally identifying information. One driving factor in this statistic is how IT is organized. Decentralization done wrong is an accident waiting to happen. Is your organization at risk due to its structu
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KARMA is a set of tools for assessing the security of wireless clients at multiple layers. Wireless sniffing tools discover clients and their preferred/trusted networks by passively listening for 802.11 Probe Request frames. From there, individual clients
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Scrawlr, developed by the HP Web Security Research Group in coordination with the MSRC, is short for SQL Injector and Crawler. Scrawlr will crawl a website while simultaneously analyzing the parameters of each individual web page for SQL Injection vulnera
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The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents fired worker Michael Fiola and initiated procedures to prosecute him for child pornography when they determined that internet temporary files on his laptop computer contained child porn.
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Aanval is the leading web-based snort and syslog interface for correlation, management and reporting. Capable of handling more than 1+ Billion events, Aanval has been protecting Domestic and Foreign Governments, Fortune 50 Enterprises, Global Financial In
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He suggests using an Applescript command that tells ARDAgent to change its behavior so that it can no longer be invoked by non-root users. The beauty of this approach is that it only alters settings on systems where this vulnerability exists.
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Freeware application Fluid runs your favorite webapps in a dedicated, WebKit-based browser so you can run your most-used webapps just like they’re native Mac apps. If this idea sounds familiar it’s because Mozilla has tackled similar territory with an app
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My Media Player, a free interface for the clips and full video content at Hulu.com, didn’t quite make the cut for this week’s 10 apps worth installing Air for, but it’s a worthy runner-up. The interface is simple and quick, letting you get right at the st
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Rescue CD scans the computer and renames all files containing malware
to .virus file extension
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Angry IP Scanner (or simply ipscan) is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It scans IP addresses and ports as well as has many other features.
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Mac OS X only: Put any web site in your menu bar with the latest version of previously mentioned Fluid, a Mac application that turns any webapp into a standalone desktop application. The video demonstration above shows how to create a MenuExtra with a web
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“Half the Mac OS X boxes in the world (confirmed on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard) can be rooted through AppleScript: osascript -e ‘tell app “ARDAgent” to do shell script “whoami”‘; Works for normal users and admins, provided the normal user wasn’t
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e’re done. Firefox 3 is going to be launched very soon. In anticipation of this long-awaited event, the folks in the Mozilla community have been writing extensively about the new and improved features you’ll see in the browser. The new features cover
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Interesting: companies who did a great job of patching (or AV updates) did not have statistically significant less hacking or malicious code experience than companies who said they did an average job of patching or AV updates. And companies who did other
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Top ten list by addressing five more useful commands and analyzing how security professionals can use each one to help them do their jobs better.
