http://www.net-security.org Help Net Security is a daily updated security related site. We offer information on the latest happenings in the InfoSec world, advisories, viruses, papers, and more. HNS also has a large download section of security tools for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Pocket PC. en-us Copyright since 1998 by HNS staff Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:45:01 -0500 HelpNetSecurityhttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/y0Gew9HFpvQ/secworld.php One of the reasons behind Firefox's popularity is the availability of a vast library of extensions. Users use them to modify the browser to their liking and make their browsing experience easier and m... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:06:09 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8527 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/ZSsDvuyAdP4/secworld.php Three men were charged on Thursday for last year's redirecting of traffic of Comcast's website to a site where a shout-out to fellow hackers was featured: Christopher Allen Lewis (aka EBK), 19, a... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:44:14 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8532 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/Nu5EhZVeZFc/secworld.php How can businesses and governments get the obvious benefits of cloud computing without putting their organization at risk? ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) released a new r... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:46:40 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8531 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/SsGme_RB7BA/secworld.php Google has been and is very helpful - no doubt about it. But it seems to me that they should try to do something about the poisoned search results problem, otherwise people will start to loose faith i... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:51:51 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8529 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/1tvuemXyd9o/secworld.php Imation announced its Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive that provides 1.5TB of storage. With a fast Wireless USB data transfer rate of up to 15MBs/second, the product can back up a typical CD in und... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:49:35 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8530 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/aiuyRJb7azU/secworld.php India's largest security conference - Securitybyte & OWASP AppSec Asia Conference 2009 - closed its doors after a very successful four days. Help Net Security was attending and here's a look at the ev... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:27:40 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8528 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/LxWmwiD9YCQ/secworld.php E-Government initiatives aimed at modernizing federal information systems are fraught with risk, according to a new study sponsored by CA and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, Cyber Security Mega Tr... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:04:21 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8526 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/CIZHLOGwT7I/secworld.php Microsoft has discovered a way to create the illusion that Windows 7 is more secure than its predecessors simply because it has a 64-bit version of the OS. As Joe Faulhaber of the Microsoft Malware... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:46:26 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8525 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/6Kcd3LhoKRk/secworld.php Government Computer News reports that at a hearing entitled “Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace”, held two days ago by the Senate's Subcommittee on Terror... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:43:16 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8524 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/hV1WdKxE7tQ/secworld.php ModSecurity Handbook features an in-depth coverage of ModSecurity, an open source web application firewall. The main highlights are the following:Step-by-step instructions for those just starting... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:15:36 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8523 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/8Hju2yu6BPk/secworld.php Core Security disclosed a vulnerability that could affect large numbers of organizations using IBM’s SolidDB relational database management system, as well as those organizations using the many third ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:22:51 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8522 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/_rOKIw6zUCc/virus_news.php Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have made Europe's first arrests in the battle against the ZeuS or Zbot Trojan which threatened to compromise thousands of computers... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:41:02 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/virus_news.php?id=1143 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/VaqDkRXFlx8/secworld.php Internetnews reports that the latest data breach to be discovered happened to MassMutual, a Massachussets-based insurance company. One of the company's employees databases was accessed by a (so far) u... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:17:01 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8521 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/WYjywPm8V6I/secworld.php Symantec's Security Responce team took it upon itself to gather information from various sources and thousands of experts and compile a list of threats that marred the information security landscape t... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:09:47 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8520 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/s42M70kWcIA/article.php Gerald Combs works with the developers of WinPcap at CACE Technologies as the Director of Open Source Projects, and is the lead developer of Wireshark. In this interview, he discusses Wireshark in det... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:42:55 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1348 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/K3fop3AO6_I/virus_news.php ScanSafe reported that 29% of all Web malware blocks in October 2009 were the result of Gumblar. This series of website compromises, collectively dubbed "Gumblar" takes a multi-pronged approach, insta... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:32 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/virus_news.php?id=1142 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/yL3DZuh-Hgg/virus_news.php From phony emails to Facebook phishers, cybercriminals are casting a wide net to lure online shoppers this season. According to new research from Webroot, certain infections designed to steal personal... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:39:50 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/virus_news.php?id=1141 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/cQq1X1V6KPc/secworld.php Netgear launched the ProSafe Wireless-N Dual-Band Access Point (WNDAP350), which enables customers to implement a fully mobile workplace while still delivering the performance required for advanced ap... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:24:52 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8519 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/HkM2sKQMg1M/secworld.php The soon-to-be shipped version 3.6 of the Firefox browser will have a new feature that will make it more stable. It is called Component Directory Lockdown, and it prevents third-party applications (ad... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:42:37 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8518 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/k4GvUNQfwmI/secworld.php T-Mobile UK got a nasty surprise when they realized that their customers whose contract was due to expire were being contacted by their competitors. They soon realized that someone at T-Mobile must... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:10:52 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8517 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/8rMt13IFevs/secworld.php Kingston released the DataTraveler Locker+ USB flash drive. Data on the Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ is secured with 256-bit hardware-based AES encryption. Access to the drive's contents is thro... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:03 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8516 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/CtthTN75Dwc/secworld.php It seems that after 15 years of predicting better security for the Domain Name System, the time has finally come for the implementation of DNSSEC, the technology that adds extensions to DNS, to provid... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:32:29 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8515 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/x3bsQtCs5uw/secworld.php Securitybyte & OWASP AppSec Asia Conference 2009, India's largest security conference, opened its doors today at the magnificent Hotel Crowne Plaza in Gurgaon. One of Delhi's four major satellite... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:26:13 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8514 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/m52CQIo78I4/secworld.php Fedora is a popular Linux-based operating system, that just reached version 12. Fedora 12 (Constantine) is filled with improvements that make Linux better than ever for all types of users. The te... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:51:05 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8513 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/ZBRWmf-BPFA/secworld.php Business associates, those who handle private patient information for healthcare organizations - including everyone from billing, credit bureaus, benefits management, legal services, claims processing... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:21:01 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8512 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/Lt1y7BHEwW8/secworld.php Today was the first day of India's largest security conference - Securitybyte & OWASP AppSec Asia Conference 2009. Help Net Security is attending the event and here's a look at the atmosphere. ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:03:27 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8511 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/KfOFd_LQW1Y/article.php Securing the DNS must be a priority because it is so central to the proper functioning of every IP network. Employing the best possible protections for the DNS will pay huge dividends over time. The ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:29:37 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1347 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/OsNo64ZjKQM/secworld.php The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration tests, system administr... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:19:19 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8510 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/9DcQMzsDerk/secworld.php Hiawatha is a secure and advanced Web server for Unix. It features a rootjail, the ability to run CGIs under any UID/GID you want, prevention of SQL injection and cross-site scripting, banning of clie... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:17:27 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8509 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/eIsqWgRWyAs/secworld.php The first Windows 7 vulnerability has been confirmed by Microsoft - a denial of service vulnerability in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol that cannot be used to take control of or install malic... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:37:21 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8508