Microsoft is planning to release an out of band patch addressing the Shortcut vulnerabil ...(more)...

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Wireshark released an update to fix multiple vulnerabilities in version 1.2 ...(more)...

httpry is a tool specialized for the analysis of web traffic. The tool itself can be used to capture ...(more)...

Fellow handler Kevin points us to new developments on this case, announced here ==www.fbi ...(more)...

New versions of Snort (Beta and Production)are both out. Release notes are here == http:// ...(more)...

Paul wrote in to tell us about the new version of NoScript just out ==http://noscript.net/ ...(more)...

"Who controls the off switch?" by Ross Anderson and Shailendra Fuloria. Abstract: We're about to acquire a significant new cybervulnerability. The world's energy utilities are starting to install hundreds of millions of 'smart meters' which contain a remote off switch. Its main purpose is to ensure that customers who default on their payments can be switched remotely to a prepay...

This year's data breach report continues this valuable narrative. This years report is based o ...(more)...

Microsoft LNK vulnerability fix coming on Monday

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According to this announcement: http://secunia.com/advisories/40780/ The problem is that p ...(more)...

The DNSSEC root key has been divided among seven people: Part of ICANN's security scheme is the Domain Name System Security, a security protocol that ensures Web sites are registered and "signed" (this is the security measure built into the Web that ensures when you go to a URL you arrive at a real site and not an identical pirate...

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Okay, this is just weird: Mark S. Price, a specialist in public security, and his privately held company, Paradise Lost Antiterrorism Network of America (www.plan-a.us), have recently applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a Utility Patent on their Suicide Bomb Deterrent, a security device designed, manufactured and distributed by PLAN-A. This device has been designed to...

It's a service: The mechanism used involves captured network traffic, which is uploaded to the WPA Cracker service and subjected to an intensive brute force cracking effort. As advertised on the site, what would be a five-day task on a dual-core PC is reduced to a job of about twenty minutes on average. For the more “premium” price of $35,...

Here's a book from 1921 on how to profile people....

SophosLabs has just released a free tool that provides detection against the Windows shortcut exploi ...(more)...