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UFOs Real or Not?
Real UFOs? Probably Not -
Hackers in the Movies … Not!
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. How cyber criminals infect victims via P2P with pirated software from Panda Security on Vimeo.
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 the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it.
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 has been used to successfully boot up into ubuntu linux and we’ve started the gui using startx. So [...]

Virus Bulletin Prevalence Table for July 2010

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Saturday, 03 July 2010 12:37
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Saturday, 03 July 2010 12:08
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Russian spies using steganography software?

Written by Administrator
Saturday, 03 July 2010 11:47
It's being reported that the captured Russian spies have been using Steganography software to pass secret messages back home. The BBC reports on steganography concepts in it's usual elegant way and photography sites are exploring the issue too. Amateur Photography magazine is speculating (we think) that easy to use free steganography software like QuickStego could have been used. Indeed this software is blissfully easy to try and does allow a massive amount of hidden text to be tucked away inside a .bmp type picture image with imperceptible results to the image itself.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 08:36

Chuck Norris infects routers?

Written by Know a Byte
Friday, 11 June 2010 19:26
Anyone using the default password of their router should beware of the karate star's namesake virus. Change your router password from its default immediately. This worm installs itself by using default router passwords by guessing each one in a 'brute force' attack. If it gets through it tries to capture banking login details and personal information.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 08:37

Browsing leaves web fingerprints

Written by Know a Byte
Sunday, 06 June 2010 22:45
Private browsing hits another set-back Web servers (that provide the web pages you view in your browser) collect a lot of information about the type of browser and its configuration as web pages are requested to be viewed. Browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome) 'leak' a lot of non-personal information that can be collected by web sites. This information (say screen resolution, type of plug-ins the browser has loaded etc) does not have any significant personal information value. From that point of view this data collection is mostly harmless. However, a lot of non-personal information can be collected - and added together this information can act as a kind of 'fingerprint' and could be used to show that one particular users browser set-up must have accessed a particular web-site. This premise is being probed by the EFF with its panopticlick experiment.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 08:37
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Facebook boosts security with remote log-out feature
Facebook has announced a security feature that will allow users to remotely log out of active sessions on any device, reducing the chances of having their accounts hacked and used to send spam or malware.
Quantum system hacked in 'blinding' attack
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have discovered a way to hack quantum network traffic using currently available technology.
Registry hack allows Windows XP SP2 patching
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Security concerns over latest rogue Facebook app
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Top 10 articles: Upcoming smartphones and hacking frenzy
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