Cyberoam, a provider of Unified Threat Management solutions and appliances, has released Cyberoam iView, a logging and reporting program that monitors networks to detect security related events, as open source [From An eye on network security]
Browsing Posts published in September, 2009
[From How Internet Surveillance, IT Sleuth Work Helped Indict Suspected Terrorist Zazi ]
2009 marks 60 years since the advent of modern cryptography. It was back in October 1949 when mathematician Claude Shannon published a paper on Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems. According to his employer at the time, Bell Labs, the work transformed cryptography from an art to a science and is generally considered the foundation of [...]
Social Engineering Framework and Metasploit Unleashed
Social-networking sites short on security [From Brief: Social-networking sites short on security]
[From Facebook App Flaws Create Trojan Download Risk ]
[From Cyber Threats Adopting New Tactics]
Apple missed a golden opportunity to lock down Snow Leopard when it again failed to implement fully a security technology that Microsoft perfected nearly three years ago in Windows Vista, noted Mac researcher Charlie Miller said today. Dubbed ASLR, for address space layout randomization, the technology randomly assigns data to memory to make it tougher [...]
[From Neighbourhood Watch Strategy May Fight Web 2.0 Threats ]
[From Five Top Cybersecurity Risks ]
[From Cyberdefenses Are Misdirected, Report Says ]
[From Intelligence Analyst Charged With Hacking Top Secret, Anti-Terror Program ]
With Sun busy being swallowed up by Oracle, should Linux geeks pay any interest to OpenSolaris? TuxRadar put together a guide to OpenSolaris’s most interesting features from a Linux user’s perspective, covering how to get started with ZFS and virtualisation alongside more consumer-friendly topics such as hardware and Flash support. [From OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For [...]
[From Steganography Meets VoIP In Hacker World ]
Wiretapping technology has grown increasingly sophisticated since the police first began to utilize it as a surveillance tool in the 1890s. What once entailed simply putting clips on wires has now evolved into building wiretapping capabilities directly into communications infrastructures (at the government’s behest). In a modern society, where surveillance is often touted as a [...]
Here’s a real copy of an American citizen’s DHS Travel Record, retrieved from the US Customs and Border Patrol’s Automated Targeting System and obtained through a FOIA/Privacy Act request. The document reveals that the DHS is storing: the traveler’s credit card number and expiration; IP addresses used to make Web travel reservations; hotel information and [...]
Many people reveal way too much personal information on social networking sites–something that can easily lead to identity theft or unwanted attention from employers etc. Technology Review has a story about several tools cryptographic tools that can be used to hide your activity on Facebook, from both untrusted users and from Facebook itself. Urs Hengartner, [...]
Here Is the First Photo of the Internet
How do you fit 1,000 words into a 140-character tweet? Short messaging networks like Twitter are packed with countless terse text messages, making images a more attractive way to broadcast complex messages and cut through the clutter. Wired.com shows you seven ways to visualization nirvana. [From 7 Ways to See the World Through Twitter's Eyes]
When federal regulators asked AT&T, Apple and Google to explain what happened when Apple rejected the Google Voice iPhone app, only Google filed parts of its answer in secret. Wired.com tells you why and seeks the answer.[From What's in Google's Secret iPhone App Letter to Feds?]
