Is PHP Secure?

January 31st, 2007 Bill Gates claimed that Vista was "dramatically more secure" during an interview with BBC News. He said the improved security in Vista was a reason all by itself to upgrade from Windows XP.

December 31st, 2005 F-Secure claims that the latest "leaked" beta of the IM client might not be what it seems. It is a virus in disguise.

July 26th, 2006 Cult of the dead cow, creators of infamous BackOrifice software, released a secure, user-friendly, free, open source instant messaging software to facilitate anonymous communication and secure file transfers. ScatterChat is designed to facilitate secure and private real-time communication over the Internet.

May 3rd, 2006 Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer of the prestigious SANS institute said that many of the most popular banking sites may be needlessly placing their customers at risk and I agree with him. The key issue is the user login areas that can be found on banking sites like Chase.com or American Express.com which ask users to submit their user ID and password information.

September 15th, 2007 UK Ministry of Defence is using secure Blackberry's to allow their staff to communicate on the move. It uses The Blackberry Enterprise Server system which allows lost or stolen smartphones to be remote controlled, shut down, or even wiped clean by IT administrators.

February 5th, 2007 Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare security tool failed independent tests carried out by the Virus Bulletin. The security testing group found that Live OneCare missed far more active viruses than any other program tested.

January 29th, 2009 I know that iPhone is nout just a phone for many of you. Its a storage place for sensitive information as well as passwords for your accounts.

October 8th, 2008 In my previous article I have already discussed about how to use the Online Feed Aggregators to view the password protected Feed with username and password. Now the next thing that should come to your mind is how do they actually fair in maintaining the security of your account.

December 30th, 2008 LONDON - You are browsing a particular website thinking that it is perfectly secure, but it may not be the case as experts have uncovered chinks in Internet security. For instance, a weakness in the Internet digital certificate infrastructure allows attackers to forge certificates completely trusted by all commonly used web browsers.

January 2nd, 2009 Root login is perhaps one of the very few vulnerabilities that Linux operating system faces. A person can hack into your system as a root user easily and can play with security settings.

January 16th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - A computer virus attack that has infected more than 6.5 million Windows PCs this week is one of the worst in years, internet security firm F-Secure said Friday. In total the worm, which is known as Downadup or Conficker, has infected nearly nine million PCs since its first version was unleashed two years ago.

July 12th, 2006 Take a look at your log file (/var/log/secure for Fedora Core 4) and you will discover numerous automated ssh hacking attempts using dictionary attack. So now you have identified the offending addresses.

June 21st, 2005 Sun this week will release two servers in its identity management line designed to help corporate users jumpstart federation projects with partners and to aid service providers such as telcos in provisioning users on a massive scale. The new software offerings are Sun Java System Federation Manager, a server that will help companies hook partners into their secure infrastructure, and a Service Provider Edition of Sun's Identity Manager software for extranet provisioning that includes self-registration, the ability to share account information and auditing tools.

November 17th, 2007 This is a comprehensive list of hosted subversion subversion (source code repository) service. I did not include the list of hosted subversion service providers who restrict to only open source projects like sourceforge or tigris.

August 31st, 2007 Tata Indicom now allows you to pay your bills online using your credit card or using your net banking account. As a Tata Indicom Broadband customer this is a big convenience for me.