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Source: 3g.co.uk - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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GoRemote Internet Communications further extended its leadership in delivering managed secure remote access solutions by unveiling the world's largest and most comprehensive secure wireless access network. GoRemote is the first to offer a single solution for mobile users to obtain secure remote connectivity using virtually any type of wireless access, including free Wi-Fi hotspots, in-flight Wi-Fi, cellular and 3G.
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Source: TechRepublic.com - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Researchers at Cranfield University are warning that "evil twin" hot spots, networks set up by hackers to resemble legitimate Wi-Fi hot spots, present the latest security threat to Web users.
Attackers interfere with a connection to the legitimate network by sending a stronger signal from a base station close to the wireless client, turning the fake access point into a so-called evil twin.
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Source: LinuxInsider.com - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Brad Spengler of grsecurity characterized the Linux Security Model, or LSM, as merely a way to allow the National Security Agency's SELinux to be used as a module. "The framework is unfit for any security system that does anything remotely innovative, such as grsecurity and RSBAC [Rule Set-Based Access Control]," he declared. |
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Source: Wayne Rash - Posted by Joe Shakespeare
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The original plan for this column was to write it at my neighborhood Starbucks while sipping down some good old French Roast and getting my blood caffeine level into the quadruple digits. Alas, it was not to be. My T-Mobile account seems to have expired; the Washington, DC, area was clobbered by a massive 3-inch snowfall, making travel impossible; and worst of all, Starbucks has all those high-carb goodies there at the coffee counter. I couldn't take the risk.
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Source: Reuters staff - Posted by Joe Shakespeare
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Wireless networks giving computer users Internet access from anywhere in the home could expose them to eavesdropping, and programmers should make their security software easier to use, researchers say.
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Source: Matthew Broersma - Posted by Joe Shakespeare
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An IT security expert, an academic and the U.K. government's cybercrime unit will give Londoners an introduction to the security dangers of wireless networking on Thursday—with the star of the show being an attack method dubbed the "Evil Twin."
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Source: Peter Seebach - Posted by Frank
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This article reviews common issues of wireless security, and shows how to use open source software to suss out wireless networks, get information about them, and start recognizing common security problems. You will learn how to build a lightweight wireless sniffer that runs on open source software and, see how simple it is to interact with wireless networks. |
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Source: Lester Haines - Posted by Joe Shakespeare
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Security-minded US decorators' supply outfit Force Field Wireless claims to have developed a DIY solution to the international menace of marauding geek wardrivers - DefendAir paint "laced with copper and aluminum fibers that form an electromagnetic shield, blocking most radio waves and protecting wireless networks".
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Source: Ryan Naraine - Posted by Joe Shakespeare
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Anti-virus researchers have issued warnings for yet another strain of malware affecting Symbian smart phone devices, the latest using a combination of tactics to spread.
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Source: Ingrid Marson - Posted by Joe Shakespeare
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There will also be a change in the way that viruses are spread, they say, with an increase in the number of viruses that spread wirelessly between devices, including viruses that can exploit the wireless capabilities of laptops.
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