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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide
October 31, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
What information is being broadcast by your computers, company, or employees, that don’t show up in a software scan? Many companies think that if they just run a vulnerability scan and it passes that they are good, but is this an accurate test of your network security?
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Israel vs Iran.The strategic importance of 5° domain,the cyberspace
October 31, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Time passes and the dispute between Iran and Israel is becoming increasingly more complex to manage. Apparently everything seems crystallized waiting for one of the contenders make the first move, in fact, both states are boosting investment in the development of their cyber capabilities...
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Why doesn't your VPN work on the road?
October 29, 2012 Added by:Rainer Enders
With the ubiquity of mobile devices, staying securely connected to work - in theory - should require nothing more than an internet connection, and seemingly everywhere you travel, whether that be in hotels, airports, or conference trade shows, offer such connections. But the reality is more complicate...
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Moving From Poisoning the Ocean to Poisoning the Watering Hole
October 29, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Using the watering hole analogy, if you are the owner of a location where people congregate to drink you need to keep the beverages safe and clean. Unfortunately digital safety is decades behind food safety. If you own a website you need to understand what SQL Injection and XSS are...
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The Security Reality of Road Warriors
October 28, 2012 Added by:Barrie Hadfield
Marketing and sales professionals will, inevitability, require a cloud-based collaboration processes or they face a potential competitive disadvantage. Therefore, IT executives are best-served by investigating the rate at which their employees are using unsanctioned tools that facilitate potential breaches...
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Cleansing the Internet of Terrorism
October 28, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Internet companies under the CleanIT regime would not only be allowed, but in fact obligated to store communications containing “terrorist content,” even when it has been removed from their platform, in order to supply the information to law enforcement agencies...
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On the Cyber Security Landscape in Africa
October 27, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The African IT scenario is deeply and rapid changing, but we have to consider great differences in the development of various economies. I believe that this isn't a problem, the main concern in my opinion is the uniform development of cyber security culture on the overall continent...
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The Undervalued Security Benefits of IPsec
October 26, 2012 Added by:Rainer Enders
For too long, IPsec struggled with a reputation of being cumbersome to implement and manage. However, even amid the harshest of its critics, its ability to secure data has rarely, if ever, come into question. Now, through advancements in the technology's infrastructure, IPsec has become easy to use...
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Canada´s audit on cyber threats to national critical infrastructure
October 25, 2012 Added by:Stefano Mele
The Office of the Auditor General of the Canada revealed in an audit made public October 23 that "the cyber threat environment is evolving more rapidly than the Canada government´s ability to keep pace"...
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Your Next Critical Security Project May Not Be What You Think
October 23, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
If we're honest with ourselves, we can look around the organization and find several projects that even though they are implementation-complete, are hardly "complete" as they sit. Too often after a catastrophic failure, or security incident we're pre-disposed to making hasty purchases to effectively stop the bleeding...
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The Threat Is Real and Must Be Stopped: Clarifications And Rebuttal by an INFOSEC Professional DRAFT II
October 22, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
So far though Senator Lieberman I have only seen gross generalities out of you and others about how dire things are and how scared we all should be. Your hue and cry ultimately lacks any hard evidence for any of us to stand behind as that the issue is real and it is so prescient that action must be taken post haste...
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Why Patch Management is Vital to Your Business Network Security
October 22, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Patch management systems enable you to maintain full control of your systems’ patching activities. You can deploy security patches to test machines, and then push them out to all the rest of your machines, and also run reports to ensure that you have 100% compliance across all servers and workstations...
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Wrong response to zero day attacks exposes serious risks
October 22, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Recent revelations on Flame raise the question on the efficiency of zero day vulnerabilities, software bugs that hackers exploit to avoid security defenses on targeted systems. The real problem when we talk about zero-day is related to the duration of the period in which hackers exploit the vulnerability...
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The Balancing Act: How Universities Can Prevent Malware and Enable Information Access
October 21, 2012 Added by:Paul Kenyon
Considering most universities must accommodate a network of thousands of desktops and laptops, in addition to end-users ranging from students, developers, researchers, academics and admin staff – it’s no wonder balancing security and productivity is such a complex endeavor...
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Free Shells with Plink and Pageant
October 21, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
Watching Egypt’s talk at DEFCON 20 he mentioned the ability to jump on on a system when pageant (puTTY’s ssh-agent equivalent) is running. So I wanted to figure out the best way to get this going. Here is what I came up with...
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Prolexic Q3 2012 ... a new generation of DDoS attacks
October 20, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
This is significant because very few companies or organizations have the necessary network infrastructure to deal with such attacks. There might be some companies with popular websites such as Google or Facebook that are able to handle such high-bandwidth floods, but most companies are not...
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