The Kanguru Bio Slider II is a USB 2.0 secure flash drive made complete with the most up-to-date biometric fingerprint technology. The drive offers a low maintenance, effortless approach to protecting and storing your data.
Seagate Technology will soon begin shipping its first hard drives with special encryption chips that will make it impossible to read data off the disk -- or even boot up a PC -- without some form of authentication Relevant Products/Services. The world's largest hard drive maker said its new DriveTrust Technology, which is designed to encrypt data stored on the hard drive automatically, will require users to have a key, or password, before being able to access the drive. The new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (Full Disk Encryption 2), geared to notebook Relevant Products/Services computers, will come in several capacities, including 80 GB, 120 GB, and 160 GB. Seagate said it expects to ship the drives early next year.
Source: LinuxPlanet.com - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
Beyond displaying an extensive slate of existing Linux products, vendors at this week's InfoSecurity show pointed to possible future offerings ranging from a Linux client for a CD-ROM encryption system to a Linux-enabled all-in-one device for securing both physical access and video surveillance.
In a sign of the growing convergence between information security and physical security, the InfoSecurity conference was combined this year with the East coast edition of the ISC show, another perennial event at New York City's Javits Center.
Conference sessions tended to skirt matters specific to OS and interoperability, focusing instead on convergence issues such as organizational restructurings and information sharing, as well as on what general types of tools to deploy against the latest nuances in bots, pharming, and other cyberattacks.
A security flaw in the binary NVidia graphics drivers used by many Linux systems could allow an attacker to compromise, through a malicious Web page, any computer using the company's driver, security firm Rapid7 stated on Monday. The NVidia Binary Graphics Driver for Linux remains vulnerable, the company said in an advisory. However, the flaw has been publicly reported and may have been known about as early as December 2004, prompting the company to report the issue publicly.
I am a web application security specialist and have been referred to as a web application firewall guy. In truth, I have many diverse interests (most of them related to technology) but I tend to deal with only one at a time. We live in exciting times when there is so much to do; wherever you look there is room for improvement. My background is in software development and I have spent significant time architecting software systems. However, over the last couple of years I became focused exclusively on security. Today I am probably best known for my work on ModSecurity, which is an open source web application firewall, and my book, Apache Security, which was published by O'Reilly in 2005.
Breach Security announced the release of the ModSecurity version 2.0 open source Web application firewall. ModSecurity version 2.0 provides greater flexibility, enhanced attack detection, and support for XML and Web Services. At the same time, Breach Security is releasing the ModSecurity Console for monitoring multiple sensors and ModSecurity Core Rules that together provide easy-to-deploy baseline Web application security.
The GNU telephony project reports that GPL-licensed implementations of two key security protocols are available for use in Linux-based VoIP (voice-over-IP) devices and softphones. Additionally, a GPL-licensed softphone based on the new implementations is already available for download, testing, and use. The two new security protocol implementations include: SRTP ZRTP
Running on almost twenty different architectures, and easily portable to others, NetBSD gained its reputation as the most portable operating system on the planet. While that may indicate high quality code, the ever demanding networked world cares about more than just that. Over the past year, NetBSD evolved quite a bit in various areas. This paper, however, will focus on those aspects relating to security. This paper was written and structured to present a full overview of the recent security enhancements in NetBSD in an easily readable and balanced form that will satisfy new, intermediate, and experienced users. References were sprinkled across the text to provide more information to those who want more detail, while preserving the continuity.
Source: ComputerWorld.com - Posted by Carney Mimms
A U.K. company hopes a cell phone security system it has developed will halt a spiraling rise in phone theft. The system sets off a high pitch scream, permanently locks the handset and wipes all data if reported stolen.
Source: EnGarde Secure Linux Development Team - Posted by Ryan W. Maple
Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.9 (Version 3.0, Release 9). This release includes several bug fixes and feature enhancements to the Guardian Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy, several updated packages, and a couple of new packages available for installation.
