An attacker that gains, or tries to gain, unauthorized access to a system. See attacker, intrusion and IDS.
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- IP Locator 1.6.2 (Mac)
- Ever check your web logs and wonder where in the world is 84.112.1.125? (Answer: Vienna, Austria) How about 118.90.122.47? (Answer: Kerikeri, New Zealand) Wonder no more! Through the magic of geolocation, IP Locator takes that mysterious IP address and tells you where that hit to your web site (or intruder...
- Software downloads 2009-11-14
- Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers
- how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- LozaLock 3.1.1 (Windows)
- Anti-Theft Data Protection that collects and stores evidence about who has been trying to break into your computer. LozaLock will remotely alert you if your computer is under attack. Send e-mails to a predefined e-mail address at any unsuccessful attempt to unlock the computer. Take a Webcam picture of the...
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- Mobile Safe Patrol Professional 3.1.1 (Windows)
- Locks a computer to prevent unauthorized access. Only you may unlock it. Once locked it is impossible unlock for intruders. Remotely alert you if your computer is under attack! Send e-mails to a predefined e-mail address at any unsuccessful attempt to unlock the computer. Take a Webcam picture of the...
- Software downloads 2009-10-21
- Mobile Safe Patrol Free Version 3.1.1 (Windows)
- Anti-Theft Data Protection that collects and stores evidence about who has been trying to break into your computer. Remotely alert you if your computer is under attack! Send e-mails to a predefined e-mail address at any unsuccessful attempt to unlock the computer. Take a Webcam picture of the person trying...
- Software downloads 2009-10-21
- Commonwealth fined $100k for not mandating antivirus software
- According to a recently published SEC cease-and-desist order, the Commission has recently fined Commonwealth Financial Network $100,000, for not mandating antivirus software on the computers of its representatives, leading to a security incident which took place in November 2008, allowing the cybercriminal behind the attack to place eighteen unauthorized purchase...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Visual IP Trace 5.0c (Windows)
- Trace and report hackers, investigate web sites with Visual IP Trace. Knowing where a suspect intruder is located, where a malicious e-mail originated, or validating the location of a Web site is key information to identify security threats, track and report abusers. Visual IP Trace's unique IP address location technology...
- Software downloads 2009-10-05
- Flip Ninja 1.0 (Mobile)
- Flip Ninja is logic puzzle game. An intruder ninja has stolen the Mystic Katana from your courtyard. To capture him before he escapes, you must eliminate all illusions of him from the grid. The grid consists of tiles that can either be in the on state with ninja or off...
- Software downloads 2009-09-30
- PBS.org hacked, serving malware cocktail
- They must be running linux.yes, they are running LinuxSurprise, Linux is not immune...However, to be fair this hack was likely through some application layer vulnerability, not a Linux exploit, unless the admin is really inept. Most likely a SQL injection attack.Linux nor Windows are really hackable when set up as...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- 10-Strike Connection Monitor 1.61 (Windows)
- Monitor network connections to your shared resources, find out who opens your files over local network. Protect your servers, be notified when an intruder opens secure or private folders and files. The program writes a log file with information on remote user name, files and folders accessed, date and type...
- Software downloads 2009-08-18
- To the Moon: Grumman, One Giant Landing for Mankind
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Blog posts 2009-07-19
- IPNetSentryX 1.7 (Mac)
- IPNetSentryX is a simple and intelligent security application which protects your Mac from outside intruders. Unlike most other Internet security products, IPNetSentryX offers basic protection without erecting barriers for the safe use of your Internet connection. There is no need to "punch holes" in a firewall for specific applications you...
- Software downloads 2009-05-28
- LozaLock 2.0.7 (Windows)
- Anti-Theft Data Protection that collects and stores evidence about who has been trying to break into your computer. LozaLock will remotely alert you if your computer is under attack. Send e-mails to a predefined e-mail address at any unsuccessful attempt to unlock the computer. Take a webcam picture of the...
- Software downloads 2009-05-05
- Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai Lama
- It all started with the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan leader's offices in India, Brussels, London and New York asked the researchers to examane its computers for malware. But researchers at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto found something much more than garden-variety spyware, John Markoff...
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Burglar Alarm 1.4 (Mobile)
- Use Burglar Alarm to deter people from sneaking away with your phone or tampering with it without your knowledge. You can also leave it in your jacket pocket, in your knapsack, or lean it against your hotel room door to alter you to a thief or intruder. It your door...
- Software downloads 2009-03-24
- Netcam Watcher Pro 2.20 (Windows)
- Netcam Watcher Professional is the easy-to-use and full-featured digital video recorder for network cameras. It can record from multiple cameras simultaneously detecting motion and only saving what matters, saving a huge amount of disk space. If you need to catch an event or catch an intruder, Netcam Watcher Professional can...
- Software downloads 2009-01-06
- Towers Trap (Pocket PC) 1.2 (Mobile)
- Have you ever considered yourself as a good or maybe the best strategist of all? Now you can prove it and compete with many opponents, and even with us - the team of Zone Projects we are strong fans of Towers Trap and will stand with dignity against everybody. Publish...
- Software downloads 2009-01-05
- SourceGuardian Case Study: Intruder Consulting
- Intruder Consulting, a company based in Mexico, created aCube, a telecom software product that works with VoIP. SourceGuardian secures the PHP interface to prevent clients from running the application unless they have purchased the whole system, and it encrypts the PHP files, protecting the program by locking it to specific...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- NEC Virtual PC Center (VPCC) Product and Technology Overview
- IT organizations are constantly on their guard to tackle the next wave of data security threats. Unfortunately, all too many occurrences take place where corporate data is stolen either from the loss of a laptop, or an intruder accessing data on business PCs outside of the IT data center....
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The un-green machine (or, hey honey, time to ditch the Harley)
- Actually, my husband DOESN'T own a Harley-Davidson model of any sort, his tastes run to his American Ironhorse Slammer chopper and the Suzuki Intruder chopper-clone-in-waiting as back-up when the engine on the big one goes awry or he actually wants to take me for a ride. But I got a...
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
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