If you’re still using WEP encryption in your wireless network, it’s long past time to change to WPA2. From Dark Reading Weekly: Researchers Put Nail in WEP’s Coffin Its first flaws were exposed more than six years ago, but WEP continues to be one of the industry’s most popular means of encrypting wireless transmissions. Now [...]
Recently, we reported on a proof of concept virus affecting iPods. With the rise of mobile phones that are more computer/video camera/camera/tv player than phone they make the next likely target. From Dark Reading Weekly: Mobile Phones: Hackers’ Next Target That mobile phone to your ear is rapidly becoming one of hackers’ favorite targets, researchers said [...]
The folks at Agnitum, maker of Outpost Pro Firewall, recently published an interview with a hacker. It makes for interesting reading. Here’s an excerpt: As a Russian publisher of security software, we are certainly not bragging about our compatriots; however intellectual and talented the perpetrator, a crime is still a crime. Nor are we making [...]
It only affects certain iPods running Linux and doesn’t do any damage but it could be a harbinger of things to come: mobile viruses and malware that affect cellphones, PDA’s, Smartphones and portable audio players. From eSecurityPlanet.com: First ‘Real’ iPod Virus Rears Its HeadIt just goes to show nothing is safe. Late last year, some [...]
From a press release from Eset, LLC. ESET has achieved another milestone by developing a new security suite Eset Smart Security with integrated firewall and an antispam module which has been made available as a beta for public testing. The new suite brings many new features, such as: – integrated firewall and antispam module- [...]
From Internet Storm Center: We have received several emails today from people who are having problems with the patch. One that is confirmed by Microsoft is the Realtek problem. Microsoft has been working on this problem and have provided a patch for the problem at: support.microsoft.com/kb/935448/ Other possible issues have been reported and are being [...]
From the Washington Post: Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch Microsoft Corp. today issued an emergency software update to plug a critical security hole in its Windows operating system. The free update is available either from the Microsoft Update site or via the company’s automatic updates feature. Alternatively, Windows users can download and manually install the standalone [...]
