Security

Social War Dialing - The New Identity Theft Menace

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:00:06 MST

A new method of stealing personal financial information uses VOIP to attack bank customer over the phone.

Will ICANN Ban Top Level DNS Wildcarding?

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:00:06 MST

Some registrars use wildcard DNS systems to redirect users to their own sites when a DNS lookup fails, which can occur in a variety of circumstances. ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee wants to ban the practice.

SecureBrowsing Extension for IE and Firefox

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:00:06 MST

Finjan released SecureBrowsing, which is a browser extension than scan Web pages in realtime to detect potentially malicious content.

Wireshark 1.2.0 Sports Lots of New Features

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:00:06 MST

Wireshark 1.2.0 is out. The new version of this popular packet sniffer includes many new features, including GeoIP integration, a 64-bit Windows installer, and more.

Gmail to go with HTTPS by default

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:00:06 MST

Webmail is inherently insecure for several different reasons - one of which being that without SSL your correspondence is easily sniffed and possibly even stored in your browser's cache.