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NMAP the Book

Fyodor (better known to his mum as Gordon Lyon) has announced the availability of his book “NMAP Network Scanning,” the official guide to the Nmap Network Scanner software.

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UCSniff – VoIP ‘Security Tool’ Released

In the last couple of hours, Sipera VIPER Lab finally announced the availability of UCSniff v1.0. This is a ‘security tool’ intended to test for the threat of unauthorised...

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WPA is Broken. Be Afraid, be Very Afraid

Researchers claim to have cracked the Wireless Protection Access (WPA) standard. Their results are due to be announced at the upcoming PacSec conference on November 12th and 13th in...

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Urgent – Patch Your Windows NOW!

In the past couple of days, Microsoft has released an out-of-cycle patch for all versions of Windows from Win2K onwards. This is serious – apply the patch immediately.

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Nominum clobbers DNS cache poisoning vulnerability

Internet software company, Nominum, has released a new version of its DNS server software that is claimed to offer much greater protection from the notorious DNS cache poisoning vulnerability unveiled...

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Patched DNS still vulnerable to cache poisoning

After security expert Dan Kaminsky discovered how to exploit a known flaw in the global domain name system, (content/view/19895/53/) the Internet community moved swiftly to develop and distribute fixes,...

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Patched DNS still vulnerable to cache poisoning

After security expert Dan Kaminsky discovered how to exploit a known flaw in the global domain name system, (content/view/19895/53/) the Internet community moved swiftly to develop and distribute fixes,...

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San Francisco network lockdown: IDs and passwords revealed in court

The trial of Terry Childs, the network administrator who locked down the city of San Francisco's network when threatened with dismissal from his job, has taken another turn, with around...

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FirePass meets Common Criteria

F5's FirePass SSL VPN appliance has been certified to Common Criteria EAL2+.

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Government approval sought for quantum encryption

The makers of a network security device that uses quantum cryptography have an ingenious plan to gain government approval despite the absence of standards specific to the technology.

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