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Computer Security News
News on Computer Security continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
| 02/09/2010 05:03 AM |
| Veracode pulls in $12.3M in VC financing |
| Security software developer Veracode Inc. has raised $12.3 million in venture capital.
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| 02/09/2010 12:26 AM |
| Chinese police shut down hacker training business |
| Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday.
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| 02/08/2010 07:49 PM |
| Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked |
| Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans.
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| 02/08/2010 03:16 PM |
| Cybersecurity stocks look hot in 2010 |
| Tech-security companies are poised to become Wall Street darlings this year, thanks in part to Google 's tiff with China.
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| 02/08/2010 10:39 AM |
| Google cyber attacks a wake-up call for US: Intelligence chief |
| The Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, has warned that the US could face a crippling cyber attack, as cyber threats grow in scope and sophistication.e said the computerized critical infrastructure of the US is severely threatened by malicious cyber attacks now occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication.
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| 02/08/2010 06:11 AM |
| Verint Systems Expands Workforce Optimization Suite with Acquisition of Iontas |
| Verint Systems Inc. today announced the acquisition of Iontas, a privately-held provider of desktop analytics solutions.
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| 02/08/2010 01:33 AM |
| Botnet targets major Web sites with junk SSL connection |
| More than 300 Web sites are being pestered by infected computers that are part of the Pushdo botnet, according to security researchers.
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| 02/07/2010 09:11 PM |
| Senator Questions Tech Companies on China Activities |
| U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, is seeking information from 30 technology companies in advance of a hearing he is planning on their human rights practices in China.
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| 02/07/2010 04:38 PM |
| Experts offer tips to protect your identity on social networking sites |
| Chances are you or someone you know is on a social network, so if you think from the perspective of a cyber criminal sites like Facebook or Twitter are a goldmine of personal information and connections.
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| 02/07/2010 12:06 PM |
| Malware Continues to be a Challenge to Internet Security |
| Identity theft continues to be a serious problem nationwide, and according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center, the economic recession may be a cause in the rise in scams, thievery and hacking.
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| 02/07/2010 07:40 AM |
| Verisign slow to take down malware sites, says researcher |
| A security researcher is accusing Verisign Inc. of not acting fast enough to take down several dozen sites that he says are known to be spewing malware.
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| 02/07/2010 03:07 AM |
| Group requests details on Google, NSA partnership |
| The Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a legal request for information on Google Inc.'s reported plans to team with the National Security Agency in analyzing a recent cyber-attack originating in China.
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| 02/06/2010 10:33 PM |
| Hackers rigging blogs, email, websites: Websense |
| Cyber crooks are rigging the Internet with booby-trapped blog commentary, chat rooms, email messages and websites, according to a Websense report released Thursday.
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| 02/06/2010 06:01 PM |
| The 10 best IT jobs right now |
| Industry watchers report that while an economic recovery won't guarantee that IT jobs return to pre-recession levels, increased interest in emerging and existing technologies will drive internal training and external hiring decisions IT professionals looking to find new employment or upgrade their current positions should investigate job ...
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| 02/06/2010 01:22 PM |
| Director of National Intelligence says major cyber attack could wreak havoc on the U.S. of A. |
| Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the National Intelligence Committee that the United States is at risk of a "crippling" cyber-attack , and without the proper tools to defend against such an attack.
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| 02/06/2010 08:54 AM |
| Cyber fraudsters attack EU's carbon trading system |
| European Union flag. Online fraudsters have carried out a "widepread" cyber attack on the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme , the EU commission said Thursday, promising a security review.
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| 02/06/2010 04:29 AM |
| Resident of India Pleads Guilty in International Online Brokerage... |
| A resident of India pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges arising from an international fraud scheme to "hack" into online brokerage accounts in the United States and use those accounts to manipulate stock prices, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney ...
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| 02/06/2010 12:07 AM |
| FBI tackling rising number of Haiti scams |
| WASHINGTON – Federal law enforcement officials have gotten more than 170 complaints about fundraising scams tied to Haitian earthquake relief, and they're bracing for more online cons using Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.
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| 02/05/2010 07:42 PM |
| Apple iPhone security, privacy claims exaggerated, researcher says |
| Apple's claims about iPhone privacy and security are exaggerated, according to software engineer and security expert Nicolas Seriot, who gave a presentation yesterday about the iPhone at the Black Hat Conference in DC.
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| 02/05/2010 03:11 PM |
| Hacker admits stealing, reselling VoIP services |
| A Miami man this week admitted hacking into the networks of several VoIP providers between 2004 and 2006 and then reselling millions of stolen minutes.
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Nsauditor
Network Security Auditor Nsauditor
Network Security Auditor is a network
security scanner that allows
to
audit and monitor network computers for
possible vulnerabilities,
checks your network for all potential methods that a
hacker might use to attack it. Nsauditor is a complete
networking utilities package that includes a wide range
of tools for network auditing, scanning, monitoring
and more. You can discover network services and check
them for vulnerabilities, list all TCP and UDP endpoints
with their associated process, discover NetBios names,
audit MS SQL servers, scan for common Adware traces
and more. The program also includes real-time network
packet filtering and analyzing, web proxy scanning,
password auditing, IP address lookup
and more than 45 network
tools for scanning, sniffing, enumerating and gaining
access to machines, DNS and
WHOIS lookups, e-mail validation, HTTP traffic generator
and intrusion detection based on security events log.
Reports can be generated in HTML and XML format. Overall,
this is a very complete package for a surprisingly low
price.
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SpotAuditor
- Internet Explorer, Outlook and MSN messenger password
recovery
SpotAuditorreveals
passwords saved in Internet Explorer, recovers ICQ,
Trillian, Miranda IM, VNC, Far ftp client, SecureFX
ftp client, FileZilla, WebDrive Ftp, FTP Voyager, AutoFTP,
32bit FTP, FTP Navigator, Dial-up, RAS, VPN, Outlook,
MSN messenger, Windows Live Messenger 8 and Windows
Messenger passwords, IE Auto Complete Fields and recovers
passwords stored behind the asterisks in password text-boxes.
It is a program for viewing and cleaning the secret
data stored by Internet Explorer. SpotAuditor allows
deletion of unwanted entries from the system protected
storage and explores Outlook Accounts, Visited URLs,
Installed Programs and Start Run Programs on a local
machine or remote computers. SpotAuditor allows to clear
Internet Explorer history, delete cookies and temporary
internet files. You can recover and restore any lost
or forgotten password ever entered in Internet Explorer.SpotAuditor
instantly cracks and decrypts passwords stored on your
computer!
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NetShareWatcher
- Monitors Network Shares and Identify Shares which
are
Violating Data Access Policy
It allows network administrators
to monitor
network shares and identify
shares which are violating data
access policy in their organization.
NetShareWatcher is very handy. You
can configure it once and forget about network sharing
problems. You need just select restricted groups or
users and every time when NetShareWatcher
will find network share with access list containing
that restricted groups and will perform an configured
action. It allows you to easily monitor
network shared folders and
permissions. NetShareWatcher alerts anytime an user
sets a share ACL to "Everyone" or some other
global group that violates your data access policy as
well as disable this shared folders automatically if
you have selected appropriate feature in the settings.
NetShareWatcher has user friendly interface and is easy
to use. Being configured once, it will regularly notify
you on network sharing detection with restricted permissions
assigned.
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BlueAuditor - detecting and monitoring Bluetooth devices in a wireless network
BlueAuditor
is a wireless
personal area network auditor
and easy-to-use program for detecting
and monitoring Bluetooth devices in
a wireless network. It can discover and track any Bluetooth
device within a distance between 1 and 100 meters and
display key information about each device being detected
as well as the services device provided. With the growing
popularity of the Bluetooth
technology,BlueAuditor
will enable network administrators to effectively
audit their wireless networks against security vulnerabilities
associated with the use of Bluetooth devices. BlueAuditor
enables the user to save the data of the detected Bluetooth
devices in an .xml file and supports the most Microsoft
Bluetooth drivers available on the market. All the mentioned
features are provided with a user friendly graphical
interface
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RemShutdown - allows Shutdown or Restart Network Computers Remotely
RemShutdown
allows shutdown
or restart network computers remotely. You
can specify a delay during which a message you specify
can be displayed and applications running on the remote
computer at the time of shutdown can be allowed to close.
In addition, RemShutdown offers the user the option
to cancel the shutdown. The tool is designed with a
user-friendly interface and is easy to use.
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Product Key
Explorer |
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Product
Key Explorer displays product key for Windows, MS Office,
SQL Server and more than 500 popular software products
installed on your local or remote network computers.
In order to install or reinstall Microsoft Office, Windows,
or other commercial software, you must have access to
a product serial key (CD Key) for that product. Product
Key Explorer retrieves serial keys from network computers
and allows to protect your company from having pirated
software on your network. With this software you will
be able to track the number of software licenses installed
in your business, find and recover a lost or forgotten
product keys, save and keep an up-to-date backup of
all your software license keys in a central location.
Excellent tool for network administrators, or businesses
undergoing a software license compliancy. You can save
product keys as Tab Delimited Txt File (.txt), Excel
Workbook (.xls), CSV Comma Delimited (.csv), Access
Database (.mdb), Web Page (.html) or XML Data (.xml)
file, Print or Copy to Clipboard.
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NetworkSleuth - Network
File Search Utility
NetworkSleuth
is a fast file search tool, that allows search for files
located on local or network computers and supports searches
for documents, image, MP3, music and video files, allows
to search for files in Local Area Network(LAN) based
on various criteria.
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