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| iBotnet - First Mac OSX Botnet DOS Attack |
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Symantec discovered a direct link between a malicious file embedded in pirated copies of Apple’s iWork 09 software and what appears to be the first Mac OS X botnet launching denial-of-service (DOS) attacks. |
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| Tor - Free Anonymity Online Software/Network |
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Tor is free software and an open network designed to counter network surveillance. If you feel traffic analysis could lead to problems for you, regarding your personal freedom and privacy, or confidential business activities and relationships, or any other authority spying on you, this might be a project to look into. |
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| ModSecurity - Apache Intrusion Detection and Prevention |
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ModSecurity is an intrusion detection and prevention engine for Web applications (sometimes called a Web application firewall). Operating embedded or as part of an Apache reverse proxy, it increases Web application security, protecting Web applications from known and unknown attacks. |
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| Security flaw in FireFox 2.0 |
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Yesterday, Mozilla made public bug #360493, which exposes Firefox's Password Manager on many public sites. The flaw derives from Firefox's willingness to supply the username and password stored on one page on a domain to another page on a domain. |
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| NuFW, Now user filtering works! |
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NuFW is an enterprise grade firewall that performs an authentication of every single connection passing through the IP filter, by transparently requesting user's credentials before any filtering decision is taken. Practically, this means security policies can integrate with the users directory, and bring the notion of user ID down to the IP layers.
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| Windows Registry Cleaners |
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| Anonymous writes: "
Registry Cleaner: Protection for Your PC", an article for Windows users ready to fiddle with registry settings. Something I'd like to keep to a minimum, personally! So, automation sounds quite welcome here..." |
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| Bluesnarfing, bluejacking, bluebugs, brrrr |
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Over time, the popularity of bluetooth enabled devices has increased. The open approach to technology standardisation and the growing user base led to more rigorous testing, which improved technology and fewer blue bugs remain undiscovered today. |
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| Postbank customers surprised by phishing mails |
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By using an in English written mail, unkown people have tried to trick customers of Postbank.
The bank says their customers to watch out for this kind of activity. |
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| The Prolexic DDoS Zombie Report |
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The Prolexic Intrusion Prevention Network (IPN) filters hundreds of large scale DDoS attacks every month and presents summarized reports of data collected during these attacks. This data is not part of a honeypot, but rather statistics taken from real DDoS attacks on the Internet. |
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