Monthly Archives for July 2005
Keep Your Home Wireless Network Secure
Wireless can be a huge risk to your personal life. Wireless has been one of the most unsecured methods of computers. Working from home while using a wireless local area network (WLAN) may lead to theft of sensitive information and criminal or virus infiltration unless proper measures are … Continue reading
Spam and Phishing, Europe and the USA against the scourge
From the analysis of Trend Micro, a company that specializes in computer security, you can clearly see that the year 2004 was a record year for the distribution of computerized viruses: 30 attacks, 28 of which medium risk and two … Continue reading
PGP creator cooks up Net phone protection
PGP creator Zimmermann has developed a prototype of an Internet telephony application that encrypts calls to prevent eavesdropping. He plans to unveil the prototype on Thursday at the Black Hat Briefings security industry conference in Las Vegas. read more | digg story
Insecurity at Black Hat: antivirus vulnerabilities
This is the reason I manually remove many of the viruses that I've gotten. For one thing they sometimes don't recognize the virus and until the anti virus software creators update the signature file and for another thing experts are … Continue reading
Auditor Flash Video Showing WPA Cracking (some WHAX hacks too)
I don't think if would be this easy to crack WPA2. Unless a hacker really wants your goods he/she/shim is more than likely going to exploit your neighbor next door who doesn't even have WEP enabled. A nice flash video … Continue reading
Computers Hacking People ver 1.0
I honestly think you ought to calm down; take a stress pill and think things over. – Hal, 2001 Space Odyssey  Information Systems will eventually have the infrastructure and ability to “socially engineer†its creators. This is far fetched … Continue reading
Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment
Um, ok. I hate spammers as much (if not more) than the next guy, but not enough to murder any one. Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, … Continue reading
WLAN (Wireless LAN) Whitepaper
WLAN Topics Discussed:The Benefits and Drawbacks of Wireless LANs, WLAN Architecture and Security Challenges, Authentication, Data Privacy, Rogue Access Points, Early WLAN Implementations, The problem with WEP, The 802.1x Solution, Tools Available for use on WLANs. read more | digg story
Finding Anit Virus, Anti Spyware Resources
The whole arena of spyware intrusion is extremely fluid with the spyware writers trying to outsmart everyone, and the software protection writers diligently working to keep up with the hundreds of new worms and viruses appearing nearly every day. Fortunately, … Continue reading
Londonbombings Virus Alert
A virus maker has exploited the London bombings tradgedy – using it to lure people into downloading the virus. An e-mail is sent to the victim posing as a CNN newsletter; and claiming to link to ameteur video footage of … Continue reading