binarii.com - Recent Articles http://www.binarii.com/rss.xml Researchers at the University of Michigan say they have uncovered a way to circumvent encryption used on many devices You’ve just set up your Linux desktop One of the best ways to protect sensitive computer data like credit card numbers and social security information is to use encryption software If you're like me, you've taken to carrying important data on USB sticks or flash drives SQL injection attacks are executed via front-end Web applications that don’t properly validate user input A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s mobile phone calls Google has put up a very interesting document explaining the security features underlying its Chrome OS There have been some changes to the code that handles user authentication and account information storage Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they've discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U Most of the time you can go for months, years, without patching your Linux distribution and not be in any real danger Canonical on Thursday made available the Release Candidate of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9 Today's most compelling technologies are giving you the biggest security headaches We can blame it all on this dastardly economy, but even in good periods, qualified individuals find it difficult to land a job as an executive Joe Abley of ICANN and VeriSign manager Matt Larson announced, at the 59th meeting of the "Réseaux IP Européens" (RIPE) in Lisbon, that, starting on the 1st of December, the central root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) will be signed, deploying the DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protocol, which has been discussed for years On the Noisebridge hacker mailing list, security specialist Jacob Appelbaum has published an SSL certificate and pertinent private key that together allow web servers to avoid triggering an alert in vulnerable browsers - irrespective of the domain for which the certificate is submitted Booming numbers of security researchers are uncovering so many flaws that vendors are finding it almost impossible to patch them all in a reasonable timeframe, the latest SANS report has found White-hat hackers have released reliable code that remotely exploits a critical vulnerability in the Vista and Server 2008 versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system From his office job at the Shelby City (Ohio) Wastewater Treatment plant, he was browsing adult Web sites, including one called Adult Friend Finder to meet women A dangerous combination of a massive increase in Web server attacks and poor patching practices is a major cause of concern for experts, according to a report issued today by several security organizations As the central element of Linux, the kernel is equally central to open source software in general