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 Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:15:02 -0500 HelpNetSecurityhttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/EHuPeesdep8/secworld.php Websecurify is a Web application security testing tool which automatically identifies vulnerabilities by using advanced scanning and fuzzing technologies. The key improvements in version 0.4 RC1 ... Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:12:28 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8481 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/UA-YiJs45mU/secworld.php Within the last several months, the FBI has seen a significant increase in fraud involving the exploitation of valid online banking credentials belonging to small and medium sized businesses. In a ... Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:36:23 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8480 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/18xExXt75HE/virus_news.php AV-Comparatives.org recently released the results of a malware removal tests with which they evaluated 16 anti-virus software solutions:Avast Professional Edition 4.8AVG Anti-Virus 8.5AVIRA AntiVir Pr... Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:04:41 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/virus_news.php?id=1137 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/xi8iZhJO2PY/secworld.php There seems to be a persisting problem: how to remember the passwords to all the websites you use and that require you to login? For myself, I chose to use a password manager and have just one passwor... Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:02:36 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8479 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/HTT1CmCVcoE/secworld.php In an ongoing battle against spam and deceptive ads and offers running inside applications, Facebook has terminated their business relationship with two more networks who continuously violated their p... Fri, 6 Nov 2009 05:36:11 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8478 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/DLzcgFlUV8w/conference.php RSA Conference helps drive the global information security agenda with annual events in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the best in the... Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:06:44 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/conference.php?id=361 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/dlChZGPxQv8/secworld.php Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa of PhoneFactor discovered a serious vulnerability in SSL, the most common data security protocol on the Internet. The SSL Authentication Gap allows an attacker to mount a ... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:38:10 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8477 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/4w5Mx0O0Obo/secworld.php If you have been using Twitter for a long enough time, chances are you have been locked out of it at least once. If you haven't, you've probably seen tweets of people who have been temporarily locked ... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:25:23 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8476 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/JZybJ5Tq_eI/secworld.php Learn how to configure Nessus to use credentials and login into a web application to scan with CGI generic tests. ... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:30:02 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8475 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/wUHtZRVCUao/secworld.php You've been using Gmail for ages. Every location you needed to find, every trip you organized - Google Maps was there for you. Most searches you ever started online began at Google.com. You watch most... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:07:56 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8474 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/RktTRGyjXTg/secworld.php Yvo Schaap, a young Dutch application developer on Facebook, stumbled on a back door into any user account that accesses the application he's working on. He discovered the exploitable mistake while tr... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:53:17 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8473 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/otWBahQGx4k/secworld.php A user's Internet access may be restricted, if necessary and proportionate, only after a fair and impartial procedure including the user's right to be heard. Member of the European Parliament (MEPs) a... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:21:03 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8472 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/CKtyMyycL4Q/secworld.php According to data compiled during October by PandaLabs, Spain tops the bot ranking with 44.49% of all computers infected by bots. These programs, once they have infected a computer, allow hackers to t... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:50:14 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8471 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/Kasf0cXne98/conference.php HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai is the premier network security event in the Middle East! Join us for the 3rd HITB event in the GCC featuring 4 tracks of hands-on technical training sessions and a 2-day confe... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:26:14 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/conference.php?id=360 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/BBbg80NKubA/article.php Kees Cook is the security engineer and Gerry Carr is the head of platform marketing at Canonical. In this interview they discuss the security improvements in Ubuntu 9.10, the security challenges the U... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:00:51 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1343 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/8DM_ZxYDeoA/virus_news.php Symantec shared an uncommon Mac malware type on one of their official blogs: a combination of malware and a game similar to the once popular Space Invaders. They detected the threat as OSX.Loosemaque. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:27:42 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/virus_news.php?id=1136 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/k_a_owENKVg/secworld.php According to The Local, Sweden is seeing her share of cyber disruptions and attacks this last few days. First a technical error blocked access to hundreds of Swedish websites for half an hour, then t... Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:47:03 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8470 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/FHUPjnPJlhs/secworld.php 79 percent of IT professionals use social networking sites such as Facebook and YouTube, while the rest do not use social networking sites at all, according to a recent CompTIA survey. Most IT prof... Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:45:10 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8469 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/pTN-DPVDr4A/secworld.php Securitybyte and OWASP India are hosting India’s largest information security event in New Delhi at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Nov 17th – Nov 20th 2009. The conference has three main tracks focused on ... Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:15:06 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8467 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/tZZuG-t_5ok/virus_news.php Online games have been spared so far from massive amounts of malware, but things seem to change lately, as more and more malware writers concentrate their efforts on writing malicious software that wi... Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:30:12 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/virus_news.php?id=1135 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/0GRK_6UoKH8/virus_news.php Windows 7 was touted as a big improvement on Vista, security aspect included. The Sophos team wanted to test that assertion, so they installed a full release copy of the new OS on a previously cle... Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:53:13 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/virus_news.php?id=1134 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/De1lQcwc3is/secworld.php Dutch T-mobile customers that use jailbroken iPhones got a nasty surprise yesterday. A "message" popped up on their screen claiming that their iPhone's been hacked and instructs them to visit doiop.co... Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:32:02 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8468 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/4vC99I6wJys/article.php One reader wrote in asking: "How can one practice social engineering before using it in the wild?" Answering is Chris "loganWHD" Hadnagy, the lead social engineer and developer of the web's officia... Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:00:21 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1342 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/VTUGh1yz6Lk/secworld.php Ryan Harris aka DerEngel, a hardware hacker/modder and author of a book on hacking cable modems has been charged with conspiracy, aiding and abetting computer intrusion and wire fraud. What promp... Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:13:55 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8466 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/t1kpcMzzphM/article.php Today, it’s expected that merchants accept electronic payments. It’s more than expected that those payments are secure. No data leaks or breaches of any kind. The reality is many companies don’t truly... Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:00:45 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1341 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/-rK7tYPdf5k/secworld.php Esther Dyson, a former chair of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ICANN, and a long-time successful investor in IT start-ups, addressed on Sunday the crowd gathered at the World Congress of t... Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:35:54 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8465 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/ntUYY1Xex9U/secworld.php Graudit is a simple script and signature sets that allows you to find potential security flaws in source code using the GNU utility grep. Graudit supports scanning code written in several languag... Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:23:52 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8464 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/239p2ljEudI/secworld.php It seems that retailers are not the only ones to have hurried up with getting advantage of Christmas as a magic, profit-enhancing word. Spammers are know for their heightened activity during holi... Tue, 3 Nov 2009 03:43:08 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8463 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/XGbq6GCkTdw/secworld.php OfficeCat is a command line utility developed by the Sourcefire VRT that can be used to process Microsoft Office Documents to determine the presence of potential exploit conditions in the file. Off... Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:02:04 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8462 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/ffpei-dgbcs/virus_news.php The top spot on BitDefender’s top 10 e-threats list for October is once again Trojan.Clicker.CM, which is mostly present on websites hosting illegal applications such as cracks, keygens and serial num... Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:01:27 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/virus_news.php?id=1133