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Don't download pirated software! Ever! This video from panda labs show how easy it is for the bad guys to tag malware or a virus on to legitimate (but cracked/pirated) software that is then often released on P2P networks for download.
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20 years of the EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing...
Adventures with BackTrack 4 BackTrack 4 is filled with awesome security utilities.
So what have we done so far ... well not too much - we've downloaded the 1.6Gb ISO image and successfully created a DVD from the ISO.
This DVD...
Norton flags nearly everything as suspicious ! We've used Norton's (Symantec) Security Suite for many years and found it to be reliable and trap most everything.
It has on the odd year, seemed to slow down low memory systems, but since 2009 this...
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This video from panda labs show how easy it is for the bad guys to tag malware or a virus on to legitimate (but cracked/pirated) software that is then often released on P2P networks for download.
How cyber criminals infect victims via P2P with pirated software from Panda Security on Vimeo.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it.
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BackTrack 4 is filled with awesome security utilities.
So what have we done so far … well not too much – we’ve downloaded the 1.6Gb ISO image and successfully created a DVD from the ISO.
This DVD has been used to successfully boot up into ubuntu linux and we’ve started the gui using startx. So far, so great, but now we’ve run into some trouble. The /etc/init.d/networking start command in the console just reveals a massive list of network cards not found. Just get a list of errors – so can’t load the preloaded Firefox browser or any of the networking security tools. Urgh.
Not sure what to do next … google is our friend .. let’s see 
More adventures with BT4 soon.
EDIT -
Doh! Just realised we were trying to start wired network services on a wireless serviced laptop!
Anyway, once the wireless services (wicd) started, we were in business.
So far using BT4, with relative ease, we have removed Windows adminstrator passwords and cracked a wireless network secured by WEP. It took about an hour to do this, to read the examples and, well basically follow the provided instructions.
So lessons learned – Windows user account passwords are better than nothing – you should use them, BUT to anyone reasonably up for BT4, they prove to be easily bypassed.
What else? Well it’s absolutely certain that WEP is dead as an encryption mechanism for wireless routers. Again though – it is better than nothing – but don’t rely on it if you have a better option.
More to follow in another edit – barely scratched the surface with what BT4 can do by the look!
We’ve used Norton’s (Symantec) Security Suite for many years and found it to be reliable and trap most everything.
It has on the odd year, seemed to slow down low memory systems, but since 2009 this seems to have been resolved and it is now very slick.
However, another issue has surfaced. Their virus checker seems to be flagging loads and loads of perfectly reputable and fine software as “suspicious.insight”.
At first glance given the nature of Norton – it being a virus checker amongst other things – this would seem to be highlighting a virus or some sort of malware. But this IS NOT THE CASE.
The flagging of software with this particular “comment”, merely means that this software has not been sold to millions of people. Could have been sold to tens of thousands in the past though!
We know it is often true that is is better to be ‘safe than sorry’, but in this case Norton/Symantec have taken this concept way too far.
They are not saying the software that they are flagging with this tag have any kind of virus or malware associated with them – just that as they don’t know of the software being used by millions of people, then maybe it might, just might – even though their own virus validation systems have already checked it and found nothing else to highlight!
Hey – even we could write virus checking software that flags everything as ‘possibly having a virus’ unless it’s made by Microsoft, Google or Adobe! Easy! But not very useful.
This is SO harmful to software vendors who may lose tens of thousands of sales over this ridiculous attitude from a once well respected security company. Symantec have got the balance completely wrong here in the fight against the virus.
Here is Symantec’s view of their ”Reputation Based Security. Way OTT.
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No information is passed across the internet until you have encrypted the message.
The encryption happens within your browser and only when you copy and paste the encrypted text into your email package and send it does anything pass across the internet.
The recipients of the email just go to the same web site and copy the encrypted message in (and enter the password of course) and press decrypt to reveal the message only to themselves.
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This is free software, we’re adding here to review at some point, before adding an article on the main site …
Based on Google’s Chrome Browser Engine the Comodo Dragon Web Browser is built with security as its prime focus.
