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Ad-Aware 2008 Now Available!

2008-06-30 15:38:14 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
Whats new in 2008? Integrated anti-virus protection Our powerful anti-spyware software now includes extended anti-virus protection for Ad-Aware 2008 Plus and Pro versions. Improved rootkit removal system An improved rootkit removal system is now available to address today's threat framework. Bigger and better detection Lavasoft's new extended...
 
Tags: rootkit removal system, computer memory, pro versions, malware threats, anti-virus protection, 64-bit platform support, spywarebiz antispyware page, users, faster
 
 
 
 
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Yes! Now I Can Attend Nate Lawsons Talk at BlackHat!

2008-07-22 03:14:11 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
By now you probably know that details of the DNS vulnerability has leaked. Halvar Flake speculated on DailyDave and the momentum built from there, despite the fact that his guess was short on a few key details. I dont need to rehash the full technical details here; by now, they are easy enough to find with a couple Google searches. When Slashdot...
 
Tags: blackhat, vulnerability, dns vulnerability, details, technical details, dan, dan kaminsky, subsequent blackhat talk, security community
 
 
 
 
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Yes! Now I Can Attend Nate Lawsons Talk at BlackHat!

2008-07-22 03:14:11 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
By now, you probably know that details of the DNS vulnerability have leaked. Halvar Flake speculated on DailyDave and the momentum built from there, despite the fact that his guess was short on a few key details. I dont need to rehash the full technical details here; by now, they are easy enough to find with a couple Google searches. When...
 
Tags: blackhat, vulnerability, dns vulnerability, details, technical details, dan, dan kaminsky, subsequent blackhat talk, security community
 
 
 
 
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Scan Alert's Hacker Safe now obsolete

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2008-04-01 10:06:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
The industry has spoken, and McAfee Hacker Safe branding is now obsolete! Everyone can be PCI certified at no cost, with no effort. It's as easy as this PCI Certified by Scanless PCI Now everyone can take credit cards to the satisfaction of PCI DSS I'm so excited! Thanks to Jeremiah for pointing out scanlesspci.com Internet commerce is now...
 
Tags: safe, pci, pci dss, scanless pci, mcafee hacker safe, credit cards, obsolete, internet commerce, effort
 
 
 
 
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SP 800-53A Now Finally Final

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2008-07-01 12:08:12 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
The perpetual draft document, SP 800-53A, has been officially released after 3 years. Check out the announcement from NIST here Now the interesting thing to me is that NIST is working with some other players (DNI comes to mind) on reference implementations of 800-53A. This is big, so big that I cant add enough hyperbole to it Why do they need to...
 
Tags: 800-53a, government docs photo, government, reference implementations, test procedures, compliance, hard time, time, perpetual draft document
 
 
 
 
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FISMA Report Cards IssuedResponse is Rote by Now

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2008-05-21 15:36:29 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
Yay, FISMA report card for 2007 has been issued. You can go check it out here . I cant believe it, but DHS scored a B against all odds And of course, by now the response to the report card is all roteeverybody wonders what the letters really mean SC Magazine IDG IT Business Edge Federal Times Washington Post Security Focus Yeah, yeah, I guess it...
 
Tags: report, fisma, fisma report card, security, measure security, enterprise-wide security, report card, security stuff, security lgopps
 
 
 
 
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Rampant FBI Abuse of Power Now Paperwork Free

2007-03-20 23:53:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
Last week I read on Schneiers blog about the rampant abuses of new powers granted under the Patriot Act. Today I read over on the Washington Post that the new rules from the FBIs general counsel directs agents to use better discretion and to ditch the paperwork Wasnt it the improper paperwork that led us to discover the FBI improperly obtained...
 
Tags: fbi, paperwork, fbi suspects, improper paperwork, data, receives data, fbi improperly, file follow-up paperwork, counsel directs agents
 
 
 
 
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IPs Now Private Info?

2008-01-22 13:49:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Thru ha.ckers.org we learn (original here ) about something that might have pretty dramatic implication to logging and log management : " IP addresses , string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information , the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday."...
 
Tags: privacy, privacy chasm, dumb privacy, data privacy regulators, heavy privacy price, org outline, implication, org, pretty dramatic implication
 
 
 
 
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Plan now to eliminate "power users" from your domains

2008-02-11 18:03:17 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
I've seen some conversations lately about the Power Users group -- how powerful is it, really, and why did we remove the group from Windows Vista That group had rights install software and drivers. And if you can install software and drivers, then you can elevate yourself to Administrator or SYSTEM. Vista includes a signed installer that allows...
 
Tags: power, power users, powerful, too-powerful power users, rights install software, software, install, install packages, install software
 
 
 
 
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Silverlight Broadcasts TV: It Really is Getting That Good Now, But Also Painful

2008-02-17 22:45:36 by mcurphey in Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com