Security

Encryption for Webmail

August 25, 2006

Finally a way to encrypt email messages within webmail services like Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Freenigma.com A free service that integrates via a firefox extension that allows you to encrypt webmail to other freenigma users. from their site – “freenigma uses one of the most famous and most widely used cryptographic software packages in the [...]

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Security Events Calendar

June 16, 2006

Looking for any easy way to keep up with the major security events? Try the Gmail Events Security Calendar. This is a user created, importable calendar with all the major security events. Since there are so many Security Conferences and Events happening all the time, I have created a Google Calendar with the Events Information. [...]

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Top 10 Most Common Passwords

June 15, 2006

A list of the top 10 most common passwords. Note that the passwords in this list are from British websites but you can see the same trends here in the US. My favorite?No. 9 – Monkey

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Security without Firewalls

June 15, 2006

SearchSecurity.com | 05 Jun 2006 – A thought provoking article and presentation (pdf) about the role of firewalls in a secure network. Although I disagree with the conclusion of Abe Singer, computer security manager for the SDSC’s Security Technologies Group, I concur with his assesment and arguments. “Firewalls can’t protect you from what users are [...]

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Social Engineering, the USB Way

June 15, 2006

DarkReading.com 06 Jun 06 -This is an account of a security audit that is just too slick. It’s a quick read, so enjoy. Audit was performed by Steve Stasiukonis of Secure Network Technologies Inc

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A Clickety-Clack Hack? (Acoustic Snooping)

September 14, 2005

The very sound of your typing may be enough to reveal the content of what you have typed. From Slashdot: “Three students at UC-Berkley used a 10 minute recording of a keyboard to recover 96% of the characters typed during the session. The article details that their methods did not require a ‘training text’ in [...]

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