[ad] This was the idea with which I have won the regional web apps contest… well actually I did a CMS but the security part of it was the most appreciated. Maybe because it was weird, you’ll see… Classical Login scripts What exactly do classical login scripts do… they get the password from the database […]
Archives for April 2007
Bot Infections Surges to 1.2 Million
[ad] I have noticed an increase in Spam activity lately, especially in Spam blog comments there has been a noticeable surge in the frequency and number. That’s why we’ve implemented stricter measures against spammers on Darknet and our other sites. It seems there has been a big raise in the number of bot infected systems, […]
SSA 1.5.1 Released – Security System Analyzer an OVAL Based Scanner
[ad] A new version of SSA (Security System Analyzer) has been released – version 1.5.1. SSA is a scanner based on OVAL, the command line tool provided by MITRE is not very easy to use so the guys at Security Database decided to write a GUI to make it simple to use and understand and […]
Social Engineering Gets a Big Jewel Heist
[ad] It just goes to show, sometimes the simple things are the most effective. A box of chocolates can defeat all the most hi-tech security systems if you add a little charm. 21 million Euros of diamonds, that’s one hell of a catch. A thief has evaded one of the world’s most expensive hi-tech security […]
Techm4sters Releases ProTech Security Distribution
[ad] Techm4sters e-mailed us recently to let us know about their new security distro called ProTech, we haven’t had time to download it and test it yet but it certainly looks promising. – What is PROTECH? Protech is a very light live security distribution based on Ubuntu Linux. – Is this like Nubuntu? It is […]