LinuxSecurity.com: Another article discussing the legendary l0phtcrack password cracking and auditing tool. Works on crypt, NTLM Windows passwords, and many other types. Great stuff. It's official: The famous password-cracking tool L0phtCrack is back, and its creators plan to keep it

LinuxSecurity.com: Open source IDS/IPS celebrates its tenth year with an all-new platform in the works, a new release candidate, and plans for a commercial a virtual appliance. The 10-year-old Snort IDS/IPS technology on which many of today's intrusion prevention products

LinuxSecurity.com: LinuxDevices has a neat article describing a new $275 processor that works well in UTM, crypto, intrusion detection, and other security-related applications.

LinuxSecurity.com: Don't tools like this already exist on the Internet and through open source that enable script kiddies to launch an attack?

LinuxSecurity.com: Many of today's UTM boxes have their roots in Linux. Which perform best?

June 1, 2009 The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web ends support for its products based on the 4.33 anti-virus engine on July 1, 2009. All customers using 4.33 solutions are recommended to switch to later versions of Dr.Web anti-virus software.

May 28, 2009 Doctor Web, Ltd. announces the release of drw50025.vdb (drw44492.vdb, drw433bu.vdb) - the corrected weekly add-on to the Dr.Web virus database. Detection of Win32.Virut.56 been improved. Corrected weekly add-ons are available on all updating servers of Doctor Web,

May 27, 2009 The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web and one of the largest ISPS in Moscow QWERTY launch cooperation in enhancing anti-virus security for subscribers of the access provider by means of the Dr.Web anti-virus service. A two month

You carry, on a daily basis, a device that can create a data breach. This device is known as a smartphone, for the lack of a better term. And, according to my reading of a research report, the presence of

NorthgateArinso, a software provider to The Pensions Trust, lost a laptop computer that contained the personal information for 109,000 people. such as AlertBoot endpoint security systems was not used to secure the device, although password-protection was used.Breached DataThe data breached

According to InformationWeek, the Department of the Interior is unable to locate 20% of their computers. Technically, it's 20% of a sample of computers, but assuming that sample's big enough, it should be representative of the entire number of computers

According to the site perens.com, a laptop thief was nabbed thanks to an on-line backup program. And, while this is preferable to not recovering a lost laptop, it's not something people should rely on for protecting their data. I would

The GNOME Foundation 2009 elections will begin next week.With the announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and the GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors. Please send your questions to membership-committee gnome org until

A remote user can send a specially crafted request to trigger a format string flaw and execute arbitrary code on the target device.

Several scripts do not properly filter HTML code from user-supplied input before displaying the input. A remote user can create a specially crafted URL that, when loaded by a target user, will cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by

A remote user can create a specially crafted image file that, when processed by the target application using ImageMagick, will trigger an integer overflow in XMakeImage() and execute arbitrary code on the target system. The code will run with the

A remote authenticated administrative user can inject specially crafted text to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target device.

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phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into