Cryptographers have exploited a known weakness in the MD5 algorithm, allowing them to create forged digital certificates. Doing so potentially trashes any security provided by the HTTPS protocol.
Two contracted ISPs stopped providing Web hosting firm McColo with Internet access which immediately quieted several major botnets responsible for almost half of all delivered spam. Learning how and why this was done is worth your time.
The recent announcement that a virus made its way to the International Space Station shouldn’t be surprising, given the resilience of some malware, but it is still amazing how widely some of it spreads. This was not the first virus to make it outside Earth’s atmosphere and it certainly won’t be the last, but […]
If your business accepts credit cards and you haven’t yet had to get tough with your network security, you will eventually. David Davis explains how the PCI data security standards affect your Cisco router and switch security configuration.
A leading security guru is making the rounds trying to increase awareness of wireless security, or rather the severe lack of such security. In a recent tour of San Francisco, Oakland, and Palo Alto, he discovered over 2600 networks, nearly a third of which were not using any encryption at all. This effort did not […]
In a letter addressed to the next President, whoever that turns out to be, BT Security chief Bruce Schneier laid out three suggestions that he called too “detailed” to actually be adopted by either of the two campaigns, but the memo contained some fantastic direction for our next commander-in-chief. The suggestions were:
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The Internet becomes a scary place if DNS can’t be trusted. Michael Kassner would like to explain why, and how a group of DNS experts recently prevented that from happening.