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As more and more businesses move from legacy wireless security models, attackers are looking for new techniques to exploit wireless networks. One technique that is rapidly gaining popularity is to exploit vulnerabilities in wireless network drivers.
Most users and security managers are not aware of the security threats posed by outdated wireless drivers. Vulnerabilities in wireless [...]
Bluetooth technology is great. No doubt. It provides an easy way for a wide range of mobile devices to communicate with each other without the need for cables or wires. However, despite its obvious benefits, it can also be a potential threat for the privacy and security of Bluetooth users (remember Paris Hilton?).
If you are [...]
Looking for a free and reliable security package for you PC? Try out CoreSecurity Core Force. Core Force is a comprehensive security solution for Windows. It provides security features to protect against malicious programs and external attacks [...]
While the adoption of web applications for conducting online business has enabled companies to connect seamlessly with their customers, it has also exposed a number of security concerns stemming from improper coding. Vulnerabilities in web applications allow hackers to gain direct and public access to sensitive information (e.g. personal data, login credentials).
Web applications allow visitors [...]
When you tell Firefox to remember your user-name and password to a login service, it encrypts the access credentials and stores them in a database file in your profile directory. Yet, anyone can open Firefox’s password manager and view your secure login credentials.
In order to keep prying eyes out of your login information, one can [...]
If you ask a typical gamer what she thinks about her PC firewall, you’d get one answer: firewalls suck. Having constantly to open ports and change configuration makes firewalls really annoying for gamers. It gets especially nasty when you have a sizable collection of games that usually require different port ranges to be opened.
However, since [...]
KeepPassSD is a Windows Mobile port of the popular open source password manager KeepPass. Just like the desktop software, KeepPassSD securely saves passwords to various login services on your Windows-based mobile device.
For first time users, here’s how it works. KeepPassSD stores all your user-names and passwords for various login services in a single master [...]
Auditing source code is rapidly becoming a standard practice employed by security teams to assure that software applications meet their security requirements. The goal of this procedure is to achieve a secure and reliable software and fix potential security holes before the software is deployed.
Orizon is a framework that provides a set of API to [...]
PWDumpX is a free open-source utility that provides system administrators the ability to retrieve the domain password cache, password hashes and LSA secrets from either local or remote Windows systems.
If you provide an input list of remote systems, PWDumpX will attempt to obtain the domain password cache, the password hashes and the LSA secrets from [...]
mod_auth_openpgp is an Apache module that adds support for OpenPGP signed HTTP requests. It allows web site owners to add an extra access authorization level to servers, virtual hosts and directors based on valid and known signatures.
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