Security Event : Hack In Paris (16-17 June, 2011)

Security Event : Hack In Paris 16-17 June, 2011 Hack In Paris is an international and corporate security event that will take place in Disneyland Paris® fromJune 16th to 17th of 2011. Please refer to the homepage to get up-to-date information about the event. Topics The following list contains...

EC-Council Launches Center of Advanced Security Training (CAST) !

EC-Council Launches Center for Advanced Security Training CAST to Address the Growing Need for Advanced Information Security Knowledge Mar 9, 2011, Albuquerque, NM - According to the report, Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th President, released in November 2010 by Center for Strategic and...

Emailrevealer.com Launches New Email Hacking Investigation service !

EmailRevealer.com the Colorado based private investigation firm specializing in cyber stalking intervention and email tracing, has added Email Hacking Investigations to their investigative tool box. EmailRevealer's Email Hacking Investigations, available through their web site at...

Maltego v3.0.3 - Latest version Download !

"Maltego is a unique platform developed to deliver a clear threat picture to the environment that an organization owns and operates. Maltego's unique advantage is to demonstrate the complexity and severity of single points of failure as well as trust relationships that exist currently within the...

Digital Forensics Framework v0.9.0 latest version download !

"DFF Digital Forensics Framework is a simple but powerful tool with a flexible module system which will help you in your digital forensics works, including file recovery due to error or crash, evidence research and analysis, etc. DFF provides a robust architecture and some handy modules." This is...

The Blackbuntu Community Edition Download !

The Blackbuntu Community Edition is a Linux Live-CD based on Ubuntu 10.10 which was specially designed for security training students and practitioners of information security. Another tool for penetration testers collection that could be considered as a competition for Pentoo. It supports the...

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I’m a dirty vendor. That may not be the best way to start a serious dialogue about security product effectiveness, but I hate to read a post on security theory by some insincere tie-wearing wonk only to discover afterwards that he or she is Lord High Poobah of Marketing at “Scaring You For Profit...

Preventing Data Breaches: Lessons From Higher Education

Since 2008, higher education institutions have experienced a staggering 158 data breaches resulting in over 2.3 million reported records compromised. In 2009 alone there were 57 reported data breaches, and year to date through July of 2010, there have already been 32 breaches. Considering that mo...

Persistent, Covert Malware Causing Major Damage

LAS VEGAS–Security technology and practice have advanced quite a bit in the past few years, but one thing that has become clear is that whatever gains have been made are just not keeping pace with the innovation of attackers. The advances being made by malware authors and crimeware gangs are...

New Linux OS REMnux Designed For Reverse Engineering Malware

A security expert has released a stripped-down Ubuntu distribution designed specifically for reverse-engineering malware. The OS, called REMnux, includes a slew of popular malware-analysis, network monitoring and memory forensics tools the comprise a very powerful environment for taking apart...

Top 20 'Critical Controls' from SANS Institute

The SANS Institute has released critical security controls for cyber defense agreed to by a consortium of agencies including: “NSA, US Cert, DoD, DoD JTF-GNO, the Department of Energy Nuclear Laboratories, Department of State, DoD Cyber Crime Center plus the top commercial forensics experts and p...

Can Howard Schmidt Make a Difference?

At first glance, the selection of Howard A. Schmidt as the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator looks like little more than a safe and easy choice designed to quiet the critics who for seven months have been howling for action from the Obama administration. But a closer look shows that Schmidt’s...

Hackers Target MS Police Software

Hackers have released software they say sabotages a suite of forensics utilities Microsoft provides for free to hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the globe known as Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor COFEE. Read the full article. The Register...

New Security Consortium to Focus on Long-Term Projects

The three universities involved in the security consortium put together this week by Northrop Grumman will have wide latitude to pursue research projects as they see fit and will be under no obligation to work only on technology that fits Northrop’s future plans. The researchers, in fact, will be...

Heartland CEO Talks Lessons Learned

A Cyber Forensics panel at the U.S Spy Museum discussed data breaches and the effects one bad hacking event can have; The panel discussion included the CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, whose company was the victim of a very large, very publicized data breach in 2008. Read the full article. Dark...

Analysis Keylogger case-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Through this case study you can learn to: ① Keyboard recording-related knowledge; ② The use of Keylogger software to obtain information. Keyboard recording is to obtain accurate information of a way, a keyboard logging software installed on the system, hidden processes, the hidden window, the...

Botnet-Infected Computers Powering Click Fraud

According to new data from ClickForensics, botnet-infected computers are behind the majority of click-fraud attacks against advertisers and publishers. For the third quarter this year, about 43 percent of all fraudulent clicks came from computers within botnets. The figure is the highest in four...

Free COFEE Helps Law Enforcement Forensics

Microsoft has announced plans to give away free versions of its COFEE Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor utility to help law enforcement agencies in cyber-crime investigations. COFEE uses digital forensic technologies to help investigators gather evidence of live computer activity at the...

The simple missteps that cause data breaches

From SearchSecurity.co.uk Ron Condon Simple mistakes by organisations can cause data loss, and those errors are making it easy for cybercriminals to flourish on the Internet, according to a forensics expert who investigated some of the world’s biggest security breaches. Matthjis van der Wel is he...

Five ways to survive a data breach investigation

From CSO Bill Brenner When the digital forensics crew comes in to investigate a possible data breach, company executives often make matters worse by not being prepared. To help companies deal with this issue, CSOonline talks to the experts csoonline.com and offers these five steps that can be tak...