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information seeping out of your Web browser could provide a gold mine for hackers doing reconnaissance for targeted attacks.At the ToorCon Seattle (beta) conference, Web application security specialist Robert Hansen (RSnake) demoed Mr-T (Master Recon-Tool), a new utility that combines information disclosure flaws in Internet Explorer and Firefox to collect information on a target’s computer system. For a basic idea …

An awful thing can happen to any Outlook Express user: you run Outlook Express and open the folder containing the necessary information just to find it empty. Outlook Express can’t read the folder and does not see your messages. It’s hard to imagine what you may feel at a moment like this. You ask yourself how to repair the Outlook …

ATTACK OF THE PHISHERS You open your in-box and find e-mail from eBay or PayPal, warning that your account has been compromised by identity thieves and that you must log on immediately to verify your information. Sounds scary, right? But here’s the really terrifying part: that e-mail is a fake, and so is the Web site it’s sending you to. …

Internet Explorer 7’s search tool is no longer limited to Microsoft’s search engine. Now you can use it with Google, Yahoo, eBay, Wikipedia, and many others. To do this: Click the down arrow labeled Search Options, which is located at the right of the search box’s magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the screen. Click Find More Providers, …

Why would Microsoft remove the good ol’ command-line telnet client from the default Windows Vista installation?!? Well, they did…but here’s how to get it back: 1. From the Start menu, click Control Panel 2. Select Programs and Features 3. From the menu of the left, select Turn Windows Features On or Off 4. Scroll down, and then check the “Telnet client” …

Okay, here’s my thought. I’ve got some links that I have found very handy in the Cisco world over the years…links that I typically forget about, but then someone shows me the same link months later and I get all excited about them again. Rather than continuing the cycle, I was hoping to enlist your help to create a post …

The folks over at NIL have put together an excellent article on using a Cisco router as a central DNS server for your organization. They also include a new feature called DNS Views – it allows you to configure your Cisco router for split-DNS: giving private addresses to servers accessible to internal users but public addresses to anyone else asking …

A couple of months ago we looked at the trend toward serious IT security breaches and organized crime’s involvement in those breaches. It’s estimated that the majority of these serious security breaches are coming about because of organized criminal activity – and yes, the Mafia is getting involved. In the original article we covered scams ranging from petty spam threats …

Keamanan (security) merupakan masalah yang cukup penting dalam era informasi elektronik ini. Berikut ini adalah sepuluh (10) saran untuk meningkatkan keamanan di tempat anda. Gunakan password yang kuat. Paling sedikit gunakan delapan (8) karakter dan menggunakan karakter yang bukan huruf seperti contohnya: j&%9Hx. Jangan menggunakan katakata yang ada di dalam kamus atau merupakan bagian dari nama anda, nama perusahaan, dan …