Archive for June, 2009

Tools and tricks of the white hat hackers

The term hacker may be used to describe people who steal information from computers, but that's just the dark side of the story.

Like the cowboy heroes of childhood, there are white hats as well as black, and the former are legal hackers: security professionals who aim to make the wilds of the internet a safer place for us all, tracking down and rounding up the exploits that endanger our computers.

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Hotmail hack blamed for exposing Sanford Affair

Emails from the Argentine mistress of married South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford were leaked to the press by a hacker, according to the Latin American siren at the centre of a political scandal in the US Deep South.

The emails were obtained by South Carolina newspaper The State back in December but kept on ice while the paper investigated their authenticity. Last week Sanford's political aides confirmed that the emails were authentic, allowing the paper to publish the intimate exchange of correspondence between Sanford and the mother of two, initially identified only as Maria.

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Juniper pulls ATM hacking presentation from Black Hat

Researcher planned to demonstrate a hacking technique targeting the underlying software of a new ATM.


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New Firefox 3.5 with private browsing and better privacy controls

Mozilla just released a new version of their popular web browser Firefox. Besides the bug fixes and general improvements, Firefox 3.5 incorporates two new security and privacy features for end users. ... Full story...

Findings of the latest annual IT Disaster Recovery survey

Symantec announced the global results of its fifth annual IT Disaster Recovery survey, which demonstrates rising DR pressures on organizations caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT se... Full story...

Rise in cyber crime tied heavily to data-stealing malware

In its first Focus Report, Trend Micro examines the growth of data-stealing malware, its characteristics and its roots in the underground cyber crime economy. While the term "data-stealing malware"... Full story...

June 2009 web security, spam, viruses and phishing highlights

Web security: Analysis of web security activity shows that 58.8 percent of all web-based malware intercepted was new in June. MessageLabs Intelligence also identified an average of 1,919 new websites ... Full story...

New filtering features in ContentProtect Pro 3.0

ContentWatch announced an updated version of ContentProtect Professional 3.0 (CP Pro). The latest version of the business-class software includes updates for SSL filtering, 64-bit application blocking... Full story...

Google Voice Security And Privacy

So it looks like Google Voice has finally begun to send out invites, and I admit that I have been waiting for mine for a while and can't wait to use it. For those that don't know what Google Voice is:

You get a single Google provided phone number that you can use. It will then handle all of your voice mail and other text messages. You can also change how your phones ring. Which is all really useful for people that have a huge amount of phones.

Will you guys use it? Do you have concerns about the security and the privacy of Google Voice?

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OSSEC version 2.1 released

OSSEC team is pleased to announce the general availability of OSSEC version 2.1. This new version is the first one with support for centralized configurations and realtime integrity monitoring on Linu... Full story...

How to Calculate 4byte DLL Hash?

So how exactly do you calculate a 4 byte hash?

// CalcDLLHash.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include
#include
#include
#include
char * CalcHash(unsigned char * MyString)
{
unsigned int h;
unsigned char *c=MyString;
while(*c)
{
h=((h<<5)|(h>>27))+*c++;
}
printf("Done");
return 0;

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Encrypt Sensitive Data in SQL Server 2005

SQL Server 2005 provides easier functions for encrypting and decrypting user sensitive information such as credit card numbers or bank account details, so as to deter any hacking attempts.

Data encryption in SQL Server 2005 can be done either by using password mechanism or by making use of keys and certificates. These methods are as follows:

1.Encryption by PassPhrase
This is a simple method in which we use the SQL method EncryptByPassPhrase('password','original_value') with our insert,update,select queries.

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Q&A: The Kantara Initiative and the global identity landscape

Roger Sullivan serves as president of the Kantara Initiative Board of Trustees and president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board. He is vice president, Oracle Identity Management where most of hi... Full story...

HyperTerminal and Windows Vista

Windows Vista no longer includes HyperTerminal - here are some workarounds. Full story...

Web-based protection against threats posed by mobile devices

CoSoSys releasedMy Endpoint Protector (MyEPP), the first Software-as-a-Service application to deliver Data Loss Prevention and device control “in the cloud”. MyEPP is designed to help companies mana... Full story...

Encrypting Oracle data with Oracle Advanced Security

Oracle today announced that Oracle Advanced Security, an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, transparently encrypts all application data stored in an Oracle Database tablespace. Customer... Full story...
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