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Application Security Matters: Deploying Enterprise Software Securely

2008-08-27 06:34:58 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
One of the most interesting aspects of being an information security consultant is the exposure to an enormous variety of industries and organizations. From health care to governments, nonprofits to s
 
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Security Risks for Mobile Computing on Public WLANs: Hotspot Registration

2008-08-25 15:37:51 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Wireless broadband internet access via hotspots is convenient for both the casual surfer and the internet-dependent teleworker. Unfortunately, current security technologies integrated into wireless LA
 
Tags: current security technologies, casual surfer, wireless, hotspots, teleworker, convenient
 
 
 
 
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Reverse Engineering: Smashing the Signature

2008-08-20 06:57:13 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Many antivirus and antispyware solutions identify malicious programs by looking for known unique signatures contained inside them. Those signatures are stored inside a database which is constantly upd
 
Tags: unique signatures, signatures, malicious programs, antispyware solutions, constantly upd, inside, database, antivirus
 
 
 
 
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Internet Terrorist: Does Such A Thing Really Exist?

2008-08-19 15:34:14 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Recently, I have experienced an increase in organizations questioning how real is the threat of Internet terrorism and what they can do to protect themselves. As a former CISO, this was one of the las
 
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Reputation Attacks: A Little Known Internet Threat

2008-08-18 12:02:44 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Reputation attacks target both individuals and companies, and their goal is to ruin the victims reputation. While attack techniques are varied, the consequences are often the same: a damaged reputati
 
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DTrace: The Reverse Engineer's Unexpected Swiss Army Knife

2008-08-14 18:42:04 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
David Weston is a security engineer at Science Applications International Corporation. In this video, made at Black Hat Europe, David illustrates his research related to DTrace. Created by SUN and ori
 
Tags: david weston, black hat europe, david, dtrace, security engineer, video, research, ori, sun
 
 
 
 
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How B2B Gateways Affect Corporate Information Security

2008-08-13 16:37:41 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
B2B gateways were introduced in 2003, marking the first time IT professionals could deploy best-of-breed managed file transfer tools without sacrificing their larger investment in enterprise business
 
Tags: b2b gateways, file transfer tools, enterprise business, larger investment, deploy, professionals, time
 
 
 
 
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Q&A: Views on Privacy and Identity Theft

2008-08-12 12:15:12 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Jonathan Moneymaker is VP of Operations at Anonymizer. He is a certified Project Management Professional and also holds a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California. In th
 
Tags: project management professional, southern california, jonathan moneymaker, university, anonymizer, operations, holds, systems
 
 
 
 
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Surf Jacking: HTTPS Will Not Save You

2008-08-11 12:39:51 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
In this paper we will describe a security issue that affects major web sites and their customers. Attackers exploiting this vulnerability are able to hijack an HTTP session even when the victim and th
 
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Q&A: E-mail spam and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions

2008-08-05 17:32:22 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
David Vella is the Director of Product Management at GFI with experience in quality assurance, network administration and software development. In this Q&A he provides insight into e-mail spam and Sof
 
Tags: e-mail spam, quality assurance, software development, network administration, product management, david vella, insight, sof, experience