security4all posted a comment about a potential disclosure of personal information when using Finjan. Thanks to him! Once installed the Finjan Firefox add-on does not require any registration nor authentication on the Finjan web site. The service is available “as is” and relies on the HTTP protocol. Here follow more
Rabobank Fishing Site
I just received the following e-mail a few minutes ago: From: “RaboBank” Reply-To: To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: RaboBank Survey Dear user, This is the first Survey at RaboBank! Please participate in our survey and in exchange you will be rewarded!!! All you have to do is to answer at 8 questions
Safe(r) Surfing with Finjan
A interesting Firefox add-on was recommended by a colleague today. It increases your security while looking for content on popular search engines: “Finjan SecureBrowsing is a free service that proactively alerts you to potential malicious content hiding behind links of search results, ads and other selected web pages. Finjan SecureBrowsing
New Google Features: Comment and Promote
Google introduced new features in its search engine! It’s now possible to promote a site or leave comments!
Test your IPSEC VPN Systems with ike-scan
I found a nice tool today: ike-scan via another blog. “ike-scan is a command-line tool for discovering, fingerprinting and testing IPsec VPN systems. It constructs and sends IKE Phase-1 packets to the specified hosts, and displays any responses that are received.” The documentation give also a nice introduction of the
Google Introduces Gmail Themes
Google introduced Gmail themes! I like my new Pine Gmail interface 😉
SANS Reading Room: Data Carving Concepts
A new document available in the SANS Reading Room: “Data carving is the process of extracting a collection of data from a larger data set. Data carving techniques frequently occur during a digital investigation when the unallocated file system space is analyzed to extract files. The files are “carved” from
iKeepass Close to be Released on AppStore!
A few months ago, I talked about iKeepass. They are news on the blog! The first version is close to be released on AppStore. Other news, this release will be read-only: “Version 1 of iKeePass will be read only, you can just view your KeePass databases. In upcoming versions there
USB Key Remote Destruction
Ironkey is known to distribute very secure USB flash drives. Physically protected by a rugged metal case, they are water-proof and tamper resistant. Data protection is based on a builtin crypto chip (via AES). They announced a few days ago a new service: “IRONKEY INTRODUCES SILVER BULLET SERVICE TO ENABLE
MetaSploit FrameWork 3.2 Released
MetaSploit 3.2 has been released! “Austin, Texas, November 19th, 2008 — The Metasploit Project announced today the free, world-wide availability of version 3.2 of their exploit development and attack framework. The latest version is provided under a true open source software license (BSD) and is backed by a community-based development