May
23
Did Symantec Pay $1.28 Billion for the VeriSign Logo?
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When VeriSign’s authentication business passed hands to Symantec last week, nobody blinked an eye. Two security companies moving assets back and forth isn’t exactly the most riveting news. Normally we wouldn’t have even bothered reporting on it except for one interesting fact that peaked our interest, VeriSign’s value is tied up in a logo.
Coke proved [...]
Mar
15
Adobe Patches Zero-Day Vulnerability
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By Justin Kerr
If you haven’t done so already, make sure your Adobe reader has checked for, and downloaded the latest updates. Adobe has finally released a patch for the zero day scripting vulnerability in its PDF software. The patch for version 9 hit [...]
Feb
22
New Adobe Reader Exploit Reminds us why we Love Foxit
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By Justin Kerr
Adobe’s PDF reader and creator software continues to be under a seemingly endless attack, and a new vulnerability has the security community very worried. A critical flaw in all editions of its PDF reader and creator software will allow attackers to [...]
Jul
30
Tech News Roundup July 30th 2008
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Norton Safe Web has entered a free public beta, and will function along side the new Norton 2009, also in beta. The new security package was designed to take on ESET’s NOD32 in the speed category and try to shake it’s bloated perception.
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 has gone 64 Bit! That’s great news for [...]
May
30
ESET Nod 32 Version 3.0 Review / Benchmarks – Still King Of Security
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By Justin Kerr
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For users where performance is king ESET has always been known as the lightweight champion. Its reputation for low system overhead and no reduced system performance has seen it continuously receive top marks from users. Thankfully in addition to great performance it’s virus & spyware detection has proven [...]
May
23
By Justin Kerr
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Power users have steered away from Norton Anti Virus products for years now due to the increasing bloat of memory and CPU use which decreased the user experience with little actual security gain. My research on the product around the net has shown a clear divide, some [...]
Apr
10
PWN To OWN Laptop Almost Sold On Ebay
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Follow Up To Yesterdays Coverage Of PWN to OWN
Shane Macaulay is selling the spoils of war, in this case the Vista laptop that makes up part of his take away prize for discovering a zero day Adobe flash bug. Problem is the rules of the contest do not allow the contestants to share the exploits [...]
Apr
9
PWN To OWN Hacking Competition – Apples New OS Cracks First
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How Did The Different Operating Systems Hold Up?
1.) Leopard Cracked First With it’s Default Software 2.) Windows Vista Cracked Second When Installation Of Adobe’s Flash Was Approved 3.) Ubuntu Linux was the last operating system standing.
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The Mac OS Cracked First? What Went Wrong?
When I first glanced at this story it wasn’t [...]
Apr
8
GRC – Over 40 Million Hits Later Shields Up Still Gets The Thumbs Up
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Steve Gibson head and founder of the Gibson Research Corporation is highly renowned in the computer security industry both through his free software contributions and through his weekly podcast with Leo Laporte named Security Now. For those of you who like to follow the fascinating field of online security [...]