Researchers claim that your typing style can be used for authentication: Security Pipeline

August 10th, 2006 Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered a flaw in HSBC's online banking security process that has left over three million customer accounts vulnerable to attack over the last two years. The researchers found that anyone using the attack would have guaranteed access to an account with at most nine tries.

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.

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.

June 8th, 2006 Using cURL (in PHP) to access https url is often not as simple as using the proper url. Using it for authentication is also not very clearly documented.

May 14th, 2005 Some people have started preaching/scolding the web developers for using HTTP GET in non-idempotent manner. In other words GET is often used to change the state of the system, when it shouldn't be.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - Experts have warned that hackers may have created a network of "zombie" cellphones, similar to a network of virus-infected personal computers, to send spam or carry out cyber attacks. 'Botnets' is the term that computer scientists use for such networks of computers.

September 12th, 2008 I was doing something very simple - connecting to my own machine (with ssh) without using password. That should be simple right? I dutifully appended my id_dsa.pub to authorized_keys and expected that it would work.

August 9th, 2005 Study conducted by researchers at the University of Scranton suggests that tea might prevent diabetes and its associated complications, including diabetic cataracts. Researchers led by Joe Vinson fed green and black tea to diabetic rats for three months and then monitored the chemical composition of the rats' blood and eye lenses.

July 13th, 2006 Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow for the execution of commands on the device at any privilege level, up to and including privilege level 15. Accessing the device at privilege level 15 would enable total control of the device, including but not limited to device configuration changes and device reloading.

June 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new approach to online security, based on distributed sanctions, could help prevent cybercrime, fraud and identity theft, according to a report. Susan Brenner, of the University of Dayton School of Law, and Leo Clarke, of the Thomas M.

October 4th, 2006 Sophos has launched a host intrusion detection technology which it claims can spot any malware before it has a chance to execute anywhere on the network. It is integrated into the company’s anti-virus scanning engine.

July 17th, 2006 Today's bot / malware writers are leveraging open source tools and development models to improve their bots according to McAfee. Unlike viruses of the past, bots tend to be written by a group of authors, who often collaborate by using the same tools and techniques as open source developers, said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager with McAfee's Avert Labs.

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.

September 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Korean computer scientists have developed a novel security language for home networks that could ward off cyber attack in homes. Like companies, banks, and other big organizations, domestic and small office networks are just as vulnerable to hacking, malicious computer code, worms, viruses, and eavesdropping.

November 18th, 2008 15th anniversary of Check Point Software (since it first started to release Firewall-1) is being celebrated in a big way. ZoneAlarm security software products is having a totally free promotion to giveaway ZoneAlarm Pro with one year subscription! The time is today.