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Category Archives: hardware & software
Microsoft & UEFI Secure Boot
A technical solution has finally been proposed to avoid locking out Linux and other OS vendors from UEFI shipped motherboards. A couple of months ago Microsoft made waves by announcing their Windows 8 support for UEFI. Open source supports took … Continue reading
Posted in hardware & software, linux, microsoft, news, security
Tagged linux, microsoft, uefi
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When more security results in less security…
I read an article that famed cryptographers at Elcomsoft have discovered a method to brute force RIM Blackberry device passwords. Usually a Blackberry will only allow 10 failed password attempts before wiping the device. Elcomsoft discovered if a user enables media … Continue reading
Posted in crypto, hardware & software, news, security
Tagged blackberry, crypto, elcomsoft, rim
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Steps to improve cable modem performance
Benchmark current signal — access common cable modems via http://192.168.100.1 Target these power levels: Downstream in the range -15 dBmV to +15 dBmV Upstream transmit within the range +8 to +58 dBmV Remove unnecessary power distractions i.e.:
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Posted in apple, hardware & software, malware, microsoft
Tagged anti-virus, apple, vmware
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Commercial Web Application Scanner Benchmark
There’s a great post doing a feature comparison of commercial & open source scanners over at the Security Tools Benchmarking blog. It appears as though IBM Rational’s AppScan and W3AF are the winners in the commercial and free/open source categories, … Continue reading
Microsoft: Sex, Lies……and cybercrime?
Microsoft also recently released an eye catching paper aptly named that discusses the validity of security reports. Far from being broadly-based estimates of losses across the population, the cyber-crime estimates that we have appear to be largely the answers of … Continue reading
Latest Microsoft Security Report
Microsoft’s Security Intelligent Report (SIR) v10 has been released and can be found here. The key highlights from Microsoft’s own Roger Halbheer: Industry vulnerability disclosure trends continue an overall trend of moderate declines since 2006. This trend is likely because … Continue reading
pandaflux’s list o’ recommended browser plugins
Firefox googlesharing: encrypts your google traffic and routes it through a proxy where it is combined with many other people. https-everywhere: Automatically enables a secure connection for websites that supports it. better privacy: Among other things, Better Privacy will delete “flash … Continue reading
Microsoft’s DEP, ASLR: Can’t have one without the other…
There’s an interesting series on the Microsoft Security Research & Defense blog covering ASLR and DEP memory protections found in Windows XP SP3+. DEP effectiveness (without ASLR) Summary: DEP breaks exploitation techniques that attackers have traditionally relied upon, but DEP … Continue reading
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GoogleSharing: a firefox addon
While reading the latest issue of Information Security Magazine I came across an article of a tool Moxie Marlinspike released at Blackhat this past summer, Googlesharing. Marlinspike has introduced several tools that help people concerned about privacy avoid giving up … Continue reading