Here is a quick lowdown on the different modes a wifi network card can be put in to. each of these modes has its different uses. note that not all network cards have the ability to use ‘promiscuouse mode’
click here to see.
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This is not directly related to security, but Symantec/norton is a computer security related company who make software and may be useful for people to know.
Check out 10 norton/Symantec secrets here.
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Sometimes you may have software or data that your virus application may pop up as virus but you have your doubts or you may just want to scan a file through a website
VirusScan, VirusTotal and Virus.Org are three websites that let you do this. You can upload a file to one of these few selected websites and it will scan the file. Not only will it do this but it will scan the file with more than one different anti virus application to double-triple-quadruple etc.. (you get the point) check. Some viruses may flag files as viruses when they are not so this is a good way to check.
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You may not know this, but you definitely should. When you select a file to be deleted or do a computer format it’s not gone!
Hard drives work by having a “contents” page. This contents page tells the computer where on the hard drive a piece of data is, and which places on the hard drive are in use and which are not.
When you delete a file on your computer or even format a hard drive you are merely deleting this “contents” that references where on the disk it is, but the actual data remains. This information can still be retrieved by recovery programs if you lose something but also by people who want to get at your information. Computer forensic’s analysts use this technique all the time to catch criminals in the computer world.
The reason a hard drive works in this manner is that its much quicker and softer on the hard drive to just delete the reference than it is to write over and replace all the files on the drive that are deleted.
This same method goes for anything, USB drives, CD’s and mobile phones. If you have data stored on any media that you want to get rid of… Burn it!
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Microsoft will be releasing the new beta 2 Vershione of the most widely used Internet browser, IE, soon be to Internet explorer 8.
IE8 is expected to have many new security features over its predecessor which has proven to be rather weak on the security front.
IE 8 will have domain highlighting to making it easier to see what website you are actually on to prevent you using websites that are not who they say they are, An improved phishing filter called the “smartscreen filter” which will also work when downloading files, changes to the weak security of activeX, Data execution prevention and cross-site scripting filters. fine out more here
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Have you ever heard of the Red team hackers? Personay I haven’t until I read this very interesting article.
The red team hackers are a group of security professionals that are hired to do security testing on computer networks such as the government military and high profile targets that may be at threat. For more information click here.
As a computer Security student that is aiming high, I would love a job like.
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There has been some speculation going about as to how ‘Gone’ the data is on an iphone when it has been deleted. there have been reports of deleted data being recovered on second hand phones and this has sparked a security frenzy with the iphone.
iPhone users are in luck! the software update 2.0 will have a erase all feature that will securely remove that sensitive data off your phone! read more here.
Even after this feature there is still some speculation as to how gone the data on an iPhone is as getting rid of data is not just a simple case of right click>delete..
More about deletion soon…
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Apple has released its latest update for Mac OSX, 10.5.4 (use OSX update to download). Included in this update is a large variety of security updates. to find out more information click here
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There have been reports of several known Trojan’s out there e for the MAC. The good news is the only way these Trojan’s can access and get hold of your system is if you accept and run them. Make sure you know what you are running on your MAC and you trust it before executing anything! I personally think this is the first of many attacks aimed at Mac users as more and more people jump on the Mac waggon.
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There have been reports that there is currently a vulnerability with all vershions of firefox, including firefox 3 which will potentially allow malicious websites to penetrate your system.
According to sources, mozilla has been notified but there is not yet a patch. We can expect one in the near future.
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