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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Firekeeper: Intrusion Detection and Prevention for Firefox

07-Mar-07

Paranoid about getting attacked by a malicious website, through your web browser? Well, then you might want to try out Firekeeper. It’s a browser-based IDPS, based on the Snort pattern matching algorithm for quick performance and good accuracy. Firekeeper will help detect and prevent web attacks based on a set of rules, which can be [...]

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Snooping WiFi for useful tidbits

04-Mar-07

There are many interesting little bits of data your computer broadcasts to the network, especially when it first starts up. Putting some of these bits together can reveal information about what WiFi access points you’ve connected to in the past, the last IP address you had from DHCP, your default network shares that you connect [...]

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Symantec releases Windows Vista security papers

01-Mar-07

Symantec released its first three major papers on Vista security today, with three more to come. The first, called “Preventing Overflows”, discusses how Vista attempts to reduce buffer overflow attacks via its GS stack protection mechanism.
The second paper, “Shuffling the Deck”, is about the new Named Address Space Layout Randomization. This is basically what Vista [...]

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