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Think Your Laptop Is Secure? Only If Whole Disk Encryption is used!

Either you or the company you work for are taking huge risks by pretending your laptop is secure if whole disk encryption is not being used to protect sensitive data, trade secrets, or financial information.

Submitted by cybernoggin on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 8:52pm. categories [ | ] read more | login or register to post comments

MS06-042 Related Internet Explorer 'Crash' is Exploitable - From eeye.com

MS06-042 Related Internet Explorer 'Crash' is Exploitable

Date:
August 22, 2006

Severity:

Submitted by cybernoggin on Wed, 08/23/2006 - 7:01am. categories [ | ] read more | login or register to post comments

MS06-040: Be On the LookOut - A WORM IS EMINENT (Mon, Aug 14th)

If you haven't patched your Windows machine to fix the August vulnerabilities, better get to it now.  Network scanning for the Server Service vulnerability is picking up, and it is now a matter of days or hours before a worm is distributed.

Here is what security experts are advising in relation to the MS06-040 / Server Service vulnerabiltiy:

---- Identify PCs vulnerable to attack by running the free scanning tool offered by eEye Digital Security. The tool, which comes in two versions -- one capable of scanning 16 machines simultaneously, the other up to 256 computers -- can be downloaded free of charge from the eEye site.

Submitted by cybernoggin on Sun, 08/13/2006 - 11:08pm. categories [ | ] read more | login or register to post comments

Google and the Stop Badware Coalition Team Up to Warn of Malicious Websites

Watch out, there's adware about

By John Leyden
Published Monday 7th August 2006 10:35 GMT

Google has teamed up with an anti-malware organisation to offer warnings when search results might otherwise lead surfers to sites hosting malicious code.

Submitted by cybernoggin on Mon, 08/07/2006 - 10:16pm. categories [ | ] read more | 2 comments
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