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04 May 08

The ABCs of securing your wireless network: Page 1

In this practical introduction to the basics of securing your home wireless network, we'll cover the important, high-level points that ordinary users need to know in order to secure a network of game consoles, phones, and PCs. Along the way, we'll also recap some of the relevant information from the original wireless blackpaper, which I recommend if you want to pursue the topic further.

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20 Mar 08

Blu-Ray Copy Protection Gets Hacked « NewTeeVee

  • Slysoft’s AnyDVD HD application is now offering unencrypted access to Blu-Ray
    content, making it possible to back up Blu-Ray discs onto your own hard drive,
    copy or transcode HD movies and watch them without DRM-compliant hardware,
    according to a company press release.
19 Mar 08

Index.dat Suite

  • The Internet Explorer is using so called index.dat files to store information
    even though the information contained in those files are hardly needed. The auto
    complete feature is using the index.dat file of visited websites.
  • When you first start the Index.dat
    Suite     you are asked to perform a scan of your system for index.dat files.
    You can speed up the process if you filter the scan by drive.
18 Mar 08

Malicious subtitle file could trip up VLC media player | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-18 | By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service

  • Security advisory warns that attackers could use a buffer overflow flaw in VLC
    to execute malicious code in a subtitle file
  • The vulnerability existed before VLC was upgraded to version 0.8.6e in late
    February, but the bug appears to have escaped the last round of patches
29 Feb 08

Business Technology : Your Boss Knows What Web Sites You Visit

  • You’re being watched: Most employers monitor workers’ Internet use, according to a new survey.
  • In general, Avramidis tells us, workers who get their jobs done shouldn’t worry much about what Web sites they visit or how long they spend on there.
27 Feb 08

The Daily Download: AVG upgrades popular security suite | Tips, news, and opinions from Download.com editors

  • On Thursday, AVG publisher Grisoft plans to introduce the full version of AVG
    Anti-Virus 8.0    . This upgrade will feature significant changes to the
    program, integrating the previously stand-alone tools of AVG Anti-Spyware, AVG Anti-Rootkit, and recent Grisoft purchase LinkScanner as well as showcasing an entirely new
    interface.
24 Dec 06

Freeware Tools and Utilities for Windows

  • The utilities provided in the following section are for password recovery and educational purposes only. - svartling on 2006-12-24

Why popular antivirus apps 'do not work'

  • Antivirus applications from Symantec, McAfee or Trend Micro -- the three leading AV vendors in 2005 -- are far less likely to detect new viruses and Trojans than the least popular brands. This has nothing to do with the quality of the software or how long - svartling on 2006-12-24

Shields UP! Internet Vulnerability Profiling

  • ... Download freeware and shareware software utilities. Download files for your computer that tweak, repair, enhance, protect ... - svartling on 2006-07-24

Gibson Research Corporation Home Page

  • Creator of SpinRite data recovery & maintenance utility, ShieldsUP! security checkup, LeakTest firewall checker and other security and administration tools. - svartling on 2006-07-24

TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption for Windows XP/2000/2003

  • Free open-source on-the-fly encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 - svartling on 2006-07-24

ModSecurity (mod_security) - Open Source Web Application Firewall

  • ModSecurity is an intrusion detection and prevention engine for Web applications. Operating as an Apache module, its purpose is to increase Web application security, protecting Web applications from known and unknown attacks. It is flexible and easy to co - svartling on 2006-07-24

Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system

  • Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and more. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features. - svartling on 2006-07-24

XML.com: Secure RSS Syndication

  • I have a problem. It's actually a pretty common problem. I have data that I want to syndicate to myself, but I don't want you to see it. It's private. Now this could be my credit card balance or internal bug reports for the day job. Either way, I want the - svartling on 2006-07-24
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