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I was contacted 2 days ago by a thief. This technique is quite old (at least 3 years) but always worth mentioning. Your bank will credit the amount in a few days but. . . the certified check is a stolen one that will take 3 to 4 week to be rejected by your bank. Enough time for robber to get the item and some money from you (they will pick u
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The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.13 [Wojmamni ama baji]. This is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately. This release contains 26 bug fixes, two moderate-level security fixes and one low-level security fix. It has been 3 weeks since Joomla 1.5.12 was released on July 1,
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I will use it on my host very soon, if you have your own root server, this tool must be part of your administrator toolbox. Joomla! team use it to test the core framework, so we should be on the safe side, unfortunately we are are all using too many plug-ins that may be unsecure.. Here is how a report generated using Acunetix WVS look like (PDF
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This list is an ongoing work and since the version 1.0 (01 March 2008), a lot of nodes/ideas and now links have been added. The tree is also now a lot more structured... Secure, Safe, Fast Linux Hosting sound silly as nothing can be fast and secure at the same time, but I've compiled a list of things that are worth doing if you are maintaini
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This list is an ongoing work and since the version 1.0 (01 March 2008), a lot of nodes/ideas have been added. Secure, Safe, Fast Linux Hosting sound silly as nothing can be fast and secure at the same time, but I've compiled a list of things that are worth doing if you are maintaining your own server. This list is clearly targeted for people runni
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First let's refresh some definitions...set user ID (SUID) The SUID permission causes a script to run as the user who is the owner of the script, rather than the user who started it. It is normally considered extremely bad practice to run a program in this way as it can pose many security problems. set group ID (SGID) The SGID permission
727 days ago
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Windows Vista includes a new defense against buffer overrun
exploits called address space layout randomization. ASLR.
is just a way to hide insecure code, and make harder automated attacks
on millions of machine except if....but I will come on that laterAddress space layout randomization
(ASLR) is a computer security technique w
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IBM Alphaworks have release a library for supporting the IETF SSH-2 protocol aka SSH (WikiPedia)IBM Secure Shell Library for Java is a lightweight implementation of the IETF SSH-2 protocol. The library currently implements only the basic SSH features such as password log-in and command execution. Advanced features such as tunning and X-forwarding a
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The National Security Agency (NSA)NSA/ Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is a United States government agency responsible for both the collection and analysis of message communications, and for the security of government communications against similar agencies elsewhere. It is a part of the Department of Defense. ... ) [WikiPedia]has develope
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Some examples of what is going on in online eBanking applications securities...Lloyds TSB is going from a 2 stage login system to a securid (2 stage login definition at WikiPedia)in order to reduce online fraud...First, users must enter a username and password. Then, on a second screen, they are asked to use drop-down menus to choose three letter
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