When you are shopping, banking or accessing other sensitive or confidential information online, how can you be sure that no one can monitor or intercept this personal information? Moreover, how can you be sure that someone can’t get this information read more »
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If you put www.findnot.com into your favorite search engine, you will no doubt see several references to potential security breaches in our PPTP VPN connections, and also our SSH tunnel connection. Here are the facts... read more »
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Yes, I linked to a story on Digg, get over it. The comments on the article are good, and there is a nice list of resources.rnrnThe NSA has always been intimately involved in U.S. cryptography -- it is, after all, expert in making and breaking se read more »
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A Malicious exploit has been discovered in Firefox that would allow a Hacker to use a Malicious JAR file to get access to your Google Account and all your confidential information. read more »
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Americans have tolerated a national security state for more than 55 years, ever since President Truman signed the 1952 directive that focused intelligence agencies and military resources on fighting the Cold War against international communism. read more »
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A spectre is haunting the net but, outside of techie circles, nobody seems to be talking about it. The threat it represents to our security and wellbeing may be less dramatic than anything posed by global terrorism, but it has the potential to wreak read more »
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Aerospace giant European Aeronautic Defence and Space has introduced a ''hacker-proof'' encryption technology. Note to hackers of the Peeps Liberation Army: The gauntlet is officially down. read more »
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As most of you guys know, yesterday 6621 emails were leaked from MediaDefender. Although we haven't read all of those emails we did make a discovery, it seems that they were using auto-submit tools to upload fake torrents. From now on everybody has read more »
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The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password "Fgpyyih804423" in 160 seconds. Most people would consider that password fairly secure. The Microsoft password strength checker rates it "strong". read more »
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Peter Shipley, a renowned - and reformed - hacker, and more recently the founder of Network Security Associates a security consulting business in Berkeley, California, offered his own intimate view of what types of hacks are most common today, and w read more »
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