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Linux Kernel 6.9 Released with Critical Fixes & Upgrades

The recently released Linux Kernel 6.9 brings forth a blend of crucial upgrades and enhancements, catering to the ever-evolving needs of the Linux ecosystem. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, underscores this by stating, "a more powerful arm64 ma...
May 13, 2024
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Nmap 7.95 Released with New OS and Service Detection Signatures

Nmap 7.95 introduces myriad enhancements, primaril...
May 13, 2024
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AlmaLinux 9.4 Reinforces Robust Linux Security

The recent release of AlmaLinux 9.4, closely aligned wi...
May 07, 2024
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Apple Software Security Inferior to Microsoft

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A security expert that build his career on identifying vulnerabilities in Microsoft software now says that the company has come a long way. Marc Maiffret, a former hacker turned legitimate security researcher, and now chief security architect at FireEye, told InSecurity Complex that Apple

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Marc Maiffret--the quick rise of a teen hacker (Q&A)

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For Marc Maiffret, the turning point in his life came when--at the age of 17--he woke up to an FBI agent pointing a gun at his head. A runaway and high school dropout, he had just returned home and landed his first professional job using his computer skills for the good of companies instead of for mischief. But his past was still catching up to his present.

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Researcher Details New Class Of Cross-Site Scripting Attack

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A new type of cross-site scripting (XSS) attack that exploits commonly used network administration tools could be putting users' data at risk, a researcher says. Tyler Reguly, lead security research engineer at nCircle, today published a white paper outlining a new category of attack called "meta-information XSS" (miXSS), which works differently than other forms of the popular attack method -- and could be difficult to detect.

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Honeynet: Google Summer of Code 2010 Updated Ideas Page and Student Applications Open

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On March 29th Google officially began accepting applications from students for Google Summer of Code 2010, which the Honeynet Project is very exicted to be participating in again this year as a mentoring organisation. We've recently updated our project ideas page and mentor information and students have until 19:00 UTC on Friday April 9th to apply (you can either chose one of our ideas or propose your own).

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Moodle 1.9.8 Tackles Security Vulnerabilities

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Moodle has released an update to its open source learning management system for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Moodle 1.9.8 includes a number of small improvements and bug fixes but also addresses nine security vulnerabilities, including two that Moodle developers have labeled as "critical" and five as "major." Moodle has also released a parallel update to the 1.8 branch, version 1.8.12, which includes comparable changes.

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Ways to Justify Security Programs: 13 Cs

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My last post Forget ROI and Risk. Consider Competitive Advantage seems to be attracting some good comments. I thought it might be useful to mention a variety of ways to justify a security program. I don't intend for readers to use all of these, or to even agree. However, you may find a handful that might have traction in your environment.

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Code Writers Finally Get Security? Maybe

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A new study finds software writers increasingly intent on baking security into their code writing, and Microsoft gets high marks for helping the process along. Security practitioners often rant about sloppy software writing as the main reason attacks flourish. But newly released survey results suggest code writers are slowly starting to get it.

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The Mac Hacker Strikes Again

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Charlie Miller has a habit of publicly upending Apple's security claims. Real cyberspies may be doing the same thing in private. Charlie A. Miller loves his Macbook Pro laptop. And his four other Apple PCs, the iPhone he uses daily and two older iPhones he keeps for tinkering. But his relationship with the company that created those gadgets is somewhat more complicated.

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New Live Hacking Channel on YouTube; Ethical Hacking Tutorials Free For All

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Dr. Ali Jahangiri, a leading information security expert and author of Live Hacking: The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Techniques & Countermeasures for Ethical Hackers & IT Security Experts, is pleased to announce that he has created a channel on the popular online video site YouTube to share his free educational videos on ethical and white hat hacking. The new videos form part of the growing 'Live Hacking' brand which includes a book, workshops and a dedicated ethical hacking Linux distribution.

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7 Reasons Why Your Company Needs a Privacy Policy

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Non-attorneys are often (justifiably) baffled at why lawyers take 3,000 words to say what normal people say in 300 and a handshake. At the risk of defending verbosity, it turns out that behind each handshake contains a wide range of non-standard assumptions. Many (if not most) disputes arise when there is a misunderstanding about an unspoken assumption

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Unicode Security Considerations

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ecause Unicode contains such a large number of characters and incorporates the varied writing systems of the world, incorrect usage can expose programs or systems to possible security attacks. This is especially important as more and more products are internationalized. This document describes some of the security considerations that programmers, system analysts, standards developers, and users should take into account, and provides specific recommendations to reduce the risk of problems.

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Ultra-secure Firefox offered to UK bank users

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UK users are being offered a 'hardened' version of Mozilla Firefox that can secure access to online bank accounts, maker Network Intercept has announced. Although the security built into the browser is identical in its workings to the US version which has been available for some weeks, the Secure-Me browser does feature some necessary localisation.

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Distributed Open Proxy Honeypots

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This project will use one of the web attacker's most trusted tools against them - the Open Proxy server. Instead of being the target of the attacks, we opt to be used as a conduit of the attack data in order to gather our intelligence. By deploying multiple, specially configured open proxy server (or proxypot), we aim to take a birds-eye look at the types of malicious traffic that traverse these systems. The honeypot systems will conduct real-time analysis on the HTTP traffic to categorize the requests into threat classifications outlined by the Web Security Threat Classification and report all logging data to a centralized location.

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