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- Process Hacker 1.7 (Windows)
- Process Hacker provides a customizable tree view with highlighting showing you the processes running on your computer. You can see detailed performance graphs. A complete list of services and full control over them (start, stop, pause, resume, and delete). A list of network connections. Provides a comprehensive information for all...
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Rohos Logon Key 1.7.3 (Mac)
- Rohos Logon Key turns any USB drive into a security key for your Mac. Using Rohos Logon Key you can add hardware level protection for your MAC. Your security benefits: The Mac is protected but you don't need to enter your password manually each time you unlock your Mac; Automatically...
- Software downloads 2009-10-17
- The case of the fake money-mules: Inside the URLZone Trojan network
- Security EvangelistHi, boy I sure wish people would stop using the word Evangelist in the wrong way. An Evangelist is someone you preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not a secular title at all. Wikipedia recently removed the secular definition and Webster is researching it. Evangelist is from the Greek...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- SMS Token 3.00.01 (Windows)
- With SMS Token you add two extra security locks to your IT environment. The locks are controlled by your users via SMS send from there Mobile phones just before logging in. Works as a single application or in connection with MS-AD, Radius, Firewalls, Citrix, PowerFuse, Terminal Services. Enjoy zero user...
- Software downloads 2009-09-01
- RSA SecurID Aids Highly-Secure Remote Hard Drive Encryption
- This government department ensures that the correct tax is paid at the right time, whether this relates to payment of taxes received by the department or entitlement to benefits paid. The challenge was to further improve the security of sensitive data, including Personally Identifiable Information and to deploy government-approved hard...
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- IE6 casts a long shadow for Microsoft
- Microsoft brought it on themselves :(Im stuck using IE6 in work because the web based application we primarily use had to be altered and so many work arounds put in for it to work nicely with Internet Explorer 5-6 that it won't even work with IE7, I'm stuck in a...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- Microsoft: Exploits likely for 'critical' Windows vulnerabilities
- Who cares if exploit code will be released in the futureAs long as it is patched before the exploits are out, the exploits no longer count. Or something like that.Cue the double standards...PS I wonder which one of these was labeled "Bulletin 3" in the pre-patch announcement? According to some...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Improving Security and Compliance, While Reducing Cost and Complexity
- A specialist provider of transaction services, with an automated payment platform processing over 90 million transactions on a peak day and a switching platform connecting over 60,000 ATMs. The challenge was to improve the overall security and simplify support of the company's heterogeneous IT environment and to standardise and centralise...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- RSA SecurID Ensures Strong Authentication for Secure Access to Criminal Justice Records
- The Kansas Bureau of Investigation KBI is the criminal investigative arm of the State of Kansas. It is responsible for providing investigative and laboratory services to criminal justice agencies as well as preventing crime in the State of Kansas. The challenge was to provide employees with real-time online access to...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- *SMobile Anti-Theft for Symbian (Mobile)
- SMobile Security Shield offers the market-leading anti-virus/anti-malware product, VirusGuard, along with anti-spam and firewall features, plus backup and restore features, combined in a single easy-to-use application. Subscription-based licensing entitles the user to one year of automatic, OTA virus definition updates, with seamless license transfer when moving to a new device...
- Software downloads 2009-07-24
- Like Santa, only greener. PecoBOO knows when your PC should be sleeping
- I'd be lying if I didn't admit that this one creeps me out a bit. A green PC maker out of the United Kingdom VeryPC has rigged some facial detection software to work in conjunction with your system's power management features. As in, if the software doesn't "see" that you're...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?
- Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?Can't blame Microsoft for doing what the EC wanted. ntntRE: Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?And this is the impact of the supposedly "consumer protecting" EC. Way to go EC, you just forced us to buy...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- SIM Card Based Security and Trust Management in Mobile Services
- The paper describes an architecture for mobile services where the SIM card is integrated as a personal security token for providing basic services related to security, privacy, and trust. The presented work is part of a cooperative research initiative aiming at an open architecture for mobile services. The SIM is...
- White papers 2009-06-18
- Microsoft patches 31 Windows, IE, Office security holes
- Microsoft patches 31 Windows, IE, Office security holesWhat this article doesn't mention...How many of these 31 "security holes" are mitigated by configuring your server the way Microsoft recommends? Beyond trust released a good report based on last year?s stats on Microsoft Vulnerabilities and what percent of vulnerabilities are mitigated...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- Microsoft ships fixes for Excel, WordPad malware attacks
- Microsoft's April batch of security patches are out: 8 bulletins with patches for at least 20 documented vulnerabilities. The most serious of the flaws could lead to remote code execution attacks that give a malicious hacker complete ownership of a vulnerable machine. This month's fixes cover several...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Online Information Management Provider Leverages a Synchronized Set of Security Services From VeriSign
- Sydney, Australia-based innovator DocLocker Worldwide Pty. Ltd. has devised a secure, remote-hosted, online system for storing, managing and sharing files and documents. The challenge was to provide security for document transfer, management of information and data storage under its set of online services and to reassure visitors to its Web...
- Case studies 2009-04-06
- One-year-old (unpatched) Windows 'token kidnapping' under attack
- One-year-old unpatched Windows 'token kidnapping' under attackMS should patch this but you do your readers a disservice by not mentioningMS should patch this but you do your readers a disservice by not mentioning that this requires IIS to be installed on the machine. Since the default install of Windows does...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-16
- One-year-old (unpatched) Windows 'token kidnapping' under attack
- Exactly one year after a security researcher notified Microsoft of a serious security vulnerability affecting all supporting version of Windows (including Vista and Windows Server 2008), the issue remains unpatched and now comes word that there are in-the-wild exploits circulating. The vulnerability, called token kidnapping (.pdf), was...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- I'm a porn star
- I'm a porn starIdentity theftOn the surface it seems funny, and one can only imagine the jokes --- such as your hacked profile showing a prettier face than your un-hacked profile.However, as your post says, the problem represents a serious issue indeed. Aside from the inconvenience, this kind of thing...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-06
- Microsoft
- MicrosoftDefinition of multi-principal as I understand itToday when you use a browser, all code that runs in your browser's process runs as "you" -- your user account in Windows or whatever OS you're running. (In Protected Mode IE, it is a restricted token, but it is still fundamentally "you".)Multi-Principal...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-23
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