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Security Company sponsors Open Source security software contest  01 August 2006 
Source: HurricaneLabs - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Hurricane Labs, an Enterprise Open Source Security Company is sponsoring an Open Source Security Software contest. Information and prizes are listed at . If you're a primary developer on a security project please check it out and submit your project.

 
SCADA system makers pushed toward security  26 July 2006 
Source: Security Focus - Posted by Efren J. Belizario   
Idaho National Laboratory and the New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure have teamed up with utilities and makers of distributed control system software to offer advice on how to make system security a major part of the critical infrastructure.

 
OSSEC HIDS v0.9 Available  25 July 2006 
Source: OSSEC.net - Daniel Cid - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
OSSEC HIDS is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, rootkit detection, time-based alerting and active response. It runs on most operating systems, including Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows.

 
Networking sites could help hackers  16 July 2006 
Source: The Register - Posted by Efren J. Belizario   
Professional networking sites are unwittingly providing hackers with the possible means to carry out sophisticated social engineering scams, a UK security consultancy warns.

 
Consortium builds super firewall to stop DDoS  14 July 2006 
Computer researchers in Europe are developing a new prototype architecture for halting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, where a barrage of traffic is directed at a Web site or server to shut it down.

 
Visa, MasterCard Unveil New Security Rules  10 July 2006 
Visa U.S.A. Inc. and MasterCard International Inc. will release new security rules in the next 30 to 60 days for all organizations that handle credit card data, a Visa official said last week. The rules will be the first major update to the one-year-old Payment Card Industry data security standard, which analysts said is slowly but surely being adopted.

 
Protecting Sensitive Data: Researchers Develop Fail-Safe Techniques for Erasing Magnetic Storage  14 June 2006 
Source: Georgia Tech Research - Posted by Eric Lubow   
After a U.S. intelligence-gathering aircraft was involved in a mid-air collision off the coast of China four years ago, the crew was unable to erase sensitive information from magnetic data storage systems before making an emergency landing in Chinese territory. That event underscored the need for simple techniques to provide fail-safe destruction of sensitive data aboard such aircraft. Working with defense contractor L-3 Communications Corp., scientists at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a series of prototype systems that use special high-strength permanent magnets to quickly erase a wide variety of storage media.

 
Security Onus Is on Developers  12 June 2006 
Source: eWeek - Posted by Efren J. Belizario   
During last month's JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, Fortify Software convened a panel to discuss the role of application developers in software security and the need for appropriate development technology, without which genuine security is impossible to achieve.

 
John the Ripper Pro  30 May 2006 
Source: Openwall Announce - Posted by Eric Lubow   
This is to announce three things at once: 1) I have started making and maintaining commercial releases of John the Ripper password cracker, known as John the Ripper Pro. 2) A new version of the tiny POP3 server, popa3d 1.0.2, has been released adding a couple of minor optimizations specific to x86-64 to the included MD5 routines. 3) A new version of the password hashing package (for use in C/C++ applications and libraries), crypt_blowfish 1.0.2, has been released adding a minor optimization specific to x86-64.

 
The Finnish security vendor said the services are for small to midsize ISPs and their private custom  30 May 2006 
Source: Networkworld.com - Posted by Efren J. Belizario   
The Finnish security vendor said the services are for small to midsize ISPs and their private customers. The services are PC Protection, which includes virus and spyware detection and a firewall, and PC Protection Plus, which adds a parental and spam control features.

 
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