When you’re reading up on Wi-Fi security, you’ll find many different interpretations and opinions. One might say disabling SSID broadcasting will hide your network, while others might say it just draws hackers into an easy job. Some might think WPA encryption is cracked, while others say it’s secure. Here we look at each myth and tell you whether it's verified--or busted.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) warned Australian IT security professionals at last week's AusCERT 2010 conference to do penetration testing on their telephone systems or risk having their PABX hacked.

Remember that little company that needed Microsoft's financial help just to keep going in 1997? Well, today that company - Apple - just surpassed Microsoft in terms of market value.

More than half (54 percent) of IT managers believe employees should be banned from watching the World Cup using their PC at work, says Blue Coat Systems.

Mark Gasson, a senior research fellow working at the University of Reading’s ‘infected’ himself with a computer virus by implanting an RFID chip into his hand.

Cisco Systems has warned of serious vulnerabilities in a device that connects a building's ventilation, lighting, security, and energy supply systems so they can be controlled by IT workers remotely.

Очень интересный материал появился на Forbes о том, как распознать ложь в деловом общении. Бывший специальный агент ФБР и вытор книги "Громче слов" Джо Наварро рассказывает как распознать лжеца. всего есть три стадии общения, когда вы можете это сделать: когда он впервые слышит ваш голос, когда подстраивается под него и когда отвечает.

Что произошло с утопической мечтой о мире, в котором "позабыты хлопоты, остановлен бег, вкалывают роботы, счастлив человек"? Просто она возникла раньше, чем могла быть воплощена в жизнь… но сегодня все изменилось! Мы расскажем о настоящем и будущем робототехники, об искусственном интеллекте, а также об эре, в которой роботы будут воевать на наших войнах, лечить наши болезни, отнимать наши рабочие места и уводить наших девушек

After more than two years, Apple's Safari browser for Macs remains vulnerable to attacks that allow websites to litter a user's hard drive with thousands of malicious files.

Some of the IT industry's biggest names are lending their support to Random Hacks of Kindness, a weekend of hard coding at which volunteer engineers seek to solve real world problems.

A pair of university researchers are presenting a system which could greatly advance the use of cryptography in computing.

Researchers from the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, have developed proof-of-concept implementations of a scheme that exploits unencrypted wireless connections to blast PCs with ads.

An Australian Federal Police (AFP) operation to rescue a hacked database of 60,000 domain names' usernames and passwords and 13,000 credit card numbers — to use as evidence — was almost foiled when the hackers were tipped off and went into a "deletion frenzy".

An internet service provider that has brought more than 20 lawsuits alleging spam abuses has been ordered to pay one of the defendants almost $807,000 for filing "groundless claims" that mired the company in years of costly litigation.

A Nebraska man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for his role in a cyber attack on the Church of Scientology's websites two years ago.

Authentication firm VeriSign has warned that botnets could become more widespread and dangerous as the services become easier to find and cheaper to hire.

Когда-то веб состоял только из статических страничек. Позже появились динамический контент и технология AJAX, позволяющая частично  обновлять содержание страниц. Но для реализации приложений, работающих в реальном времени - онлайн игр, биржевых программ, отдельных частей социальных сетей, - этого оказалось мало

Инструментарий Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 позволяет автоматизировать процедуру установки ОС Windows и приложений, а также упростить массовую миграцию с Win2k/WinXP на Vista/Seven. В этом ролике мы покажем, как установить MDT 2010 на Win2k8, создадим ресурсы установки и сгенерируем загрузочные образы.

Pentagon bizarro-boffinry bureau DARPA is seeking to develop a set of tools for internet users which are nominally intended for some military purpose - but which would seem at least as useful to those determined to get around measures designed to thwart copyright violators and extreme-porn aficionados.

A controversial remote administration program that a Pennsylvania school district installed on student-issued laptops contains a security hole that put the students at risk of being spied on by people outside the school, according to a security firm that examined the software.

An unreleased movie about the life of infamous hacker Adrian Lamo has leaked to BitTorrent. The movie, titled Hackers Wanted, failed to get a conventional release following alleged conflicts between its producer and others on the team. Lamo has been telling TorrentFreak how he feels about this unofficial release.

A group of Colombian and foreign hackers plan to disrupt Colombia's May 30 presidential elections, the country's Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said Saturday.

Solving a 400-piece jigsaw puzzle should be a doddle – but it's won a computer a new world record.

Security experts are warning of a click-jacking worm spreading via Facebook which tricks users into posting it on their status updates, although it does not appear to be malicious.

Не все знают, но в Gmail есть отличная функция отзыва письма, которое было отправлено вами по ошибке не тому адресату или не с теми данными, что стоит :)

Программа с незамысловатым названием GNU Screen остается излюбленным инструментом системных администраторов и UNIX-пользователей со стажем уже на протяжении второго десятка лет. Она настолько популярна, что почти всегда попадает на первое место списков незаменимого арсенала юниксоида

Приветствую тебя, читатель! В январском номере ][ мы подробно рассмотрели один из новейших багов в PHP от известного специалиста по информационной безопасности Стефана Эссера. Как ты наверное помнишь, баг заключается в небезопасном использовании функции unserialize применительно к объектам

You can spend millions of dollars on network security, but it's all for naught if the data center has physical weaknesses that leave it open to intruders. Red team experts hired to social-engineer their way into an organization say they regularly find physical hacking far too easy.

The vast majority of people surfing the web leave behind digital fingerprints that can be used to uniquely identify them, research released Monday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation suggests.

The Pirate Bay is largely unavailable today after legal action against the site's internet service provider (ISP).

 A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer's computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital.

What does business continuity mean to you? For Microsoft Global Security it can involve locking a door from the other side of the world.

Если бы шесть лет назад, когда наш журнал еще пугал распространителей новым на рынке названием, нам сообщили, что "Железо" будет тестировать будильники, реакцию предсказать было бы весьма несложно. Однако маховик прогресса раскручен и оборот за оборотом приближает нас к чудесным вещам из светлого будущего, среди которых оказался и "умный" будильник Axbo Sleep Phase Alarm Clock

Продолжая тему по тренировке памяти, предлагаем вам еще несколько интересных упражнения с цифрами. Хоть исследования и показывают, что после 25 лет память ухудшается, мы ведь с вами оптимисты и знаем, что при правильном подходе нет ничего невозможного.

Это видео демонстрирует возможность обхода встроенного WAF в Danneo CMS на примере одного из сайтов. Используя NULL-byte и несогласованность кода CMS, атакующий проводит SQL-инъекцию для получения зашифрованного пароля администратора, несмотря на проверку входящих данных по черному списку

Facebook says it has discovered the identity of "Kirllos," the hacker who claimed to be selling 1.5 million Facebook logins on the black market last month. It turns out that Kirlios didn't quite have as many accounts as he originally claimed, though he did manage to sell a number of credentials to third parties. Facebook has also updated its login system to make it more secure for users who want to make sure they maintain control of their accounts.

One of the internet's most resilient and crimeware-friendly networks was knocked offline Friday after the plug was pulled on its upstream service provider, security watchers said.

A Ukrainian national accused of helping to hack into nine US retailers and making off with data for millions of credit cards has been arrested in India, IDG News has reported.

During the 17 years this writer worked on braking and stability control systems, we occasionally joked about being able to remotely update the software in people's vehicles and bring them to a halt. At that time, the technology didn't really exist to actually do that. Today that's no longer true. Researchers the Universities of California and Washington will present a paper at a security conference in Oakland, California next week outlining how they were able to hack into vehicle computer systems.

A just-published attack tactic that bypasses the security protections of most current antivirus software is a "very serious" problem, an executive at one unaffected company said.