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Privacy Dilemma: How to Protect Yourself Online

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Here are a few security tips for you to consider when you’re surfing the net

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Phishing Exposed, Brands Secured

Friday, June 6th, 2008

a presentation about professional services : Anti-phishing and brand identity.

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Good News from ArcSight and Imperva

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

ArcSight announced that T-Mobile has chosen ArcSight ESM for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall won Information Security Magazine “strongest overall offering for application and database security” . Sweet !

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Kerberos Consortium Targets Universal Authentication Platform

Friday, September 28th, 2007

The Kerberos Consortium goal is to establish Kerberos as the universal authentication platform for the world’s computer networks.

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Finjan Web Security Trends Report - Q3/2007

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

One of the innovative research presented in the report is the security model and risk posed by the various widgets which seem to be the hottest trend in GUI design.Either built for WWW, Windows Vista or Macintosh OSX Dashboard,the widgets are everywhere and Finjan found vulnerabilities in widgets and gadgets that enable attackers to gain control of user machines.

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2007 Best of Open Source in Security Awards

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

InfoWorld has announced the 2007 Best of Open Source in Security Awards and as far as I can see nothing new showed up in the awards list.

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Starting A Computer Security Incident Response Team ?

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

In case you neded a place to start in evaluating the steps required for building a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) , look no further. CERT/CC has released the Action List for Developing a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) .

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Aggressive and Effective Spam using Email Attachments

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

In the wake of the latest PDF / ZIP spam surge, many security analysts and vendors have taken a shot at explaining this phenomenon. It is the case of GFI Software who released an interesting whitepaper called “Attachment spam – the latest trend”.

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PCI DSS made easy: An information guide

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

I would recommend the PCI DSS made easy to anyone who’s interested in getting a solid overview of the PCI DSS and also it’s interesting to see how GFI can help you address multiple sections in 9 of the 12 PCI requirements.

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Microsoft KB Article on How To Hack IIS

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

In adressing an IIS 5 bug (CVE-2007-2815), the Microsoft Knowledge Base article #328832 went a step further in presenting the conditions needed to reproduce the issue: they provided step by step instructions to what is basically an exploit of the vulnerability

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