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Flawed Security Exposes Vital Software to Hackers  11 March 2010 
Source: NY Times - Posted by anthony   
Hacks/Cracks McAfee, a leading maker of Internet security software, warned this week that software systems used by many companies to store and manage their intellectual property are being actively targeted by hackers and are in need of significantly increased security focus.
 
Inside the mind of a Russian hacker  11 March 2010 
Source: BBC News - Posted by anthony   
Security Andrei is a young man with immense power at his fingertips. He's a reformed Russian hacker. Back hunched, eyes fixed on the computer screen in front of him, he demonstrates what he can do.
 
Estonian DDoS revenge worm crafter jailed  11 March 2010 
Source: The Register UK - Posted by Alex   
Hacks/Cracks An Estonian virus writer has been jailed for two and a half years for creating a Windows worm family that launched denial of service attacks on the websites of a local insurance firm and ISP.
 
Password cracker 100 times faster with an SSD  11 March 2010 
Source: H Security - Posted by Alex   
Cryptography The security specialist Objectif Sécurité has optimised its rainbow tables – a common tool used to crack password hashes – to make use of SSDs. The result is, according to Objectif Sécurité's Philippe Oechslin, an acceleration by a factor of 100 when compared to their old 8GB Rainbow Tables for XP hashes. A web form takes the XP-hashes and cracks them for free with the new, ten times larger tables.
 
Schneier: Fight for privacy or kiss it good-bye  11 March 2010 
Source: Network World - Posted by Alex   
Privacy If the public wants online privacy it had better fight now for laws to protect it because businesses won't and individuals don't have the clout, security expert Bruce Schneier told RSA Conference.
 
Hackers aren't as sneaky as you think  10 March 2010 
Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Alex   
Hacks/Cracks Two weeks ago, I essentially claimed that nearly every company I know is hacked -- and in many cases, thoroughly hacked. Although there's a bit of hyperbole in that statement, it isn't that far from reality. That statement, however, has led some readers to believe detecting hackers and preventing attacks is impossible. Nothing could be further from the truth.
 
What Are the Most Overrated Security Technologies?  10 March 2010 
Source: CSO Online - Posted by anthony   
Security The security community has grown to depend on some basic technologies in the fight against cyber thieves, such as antivirus software and firewalls. But are practitioners clinging to tools that outlived their usefulness long ago? Were those tools ever really useful to begin with?
 
    
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