Forum: Miscellaneous Security Discussions

Phone phreaking is well known from dacades, but the introduction of data services had increased related threats. Especially with the increase of IP...

Within a few years some countries will use electronic passports. The technical design of the identificationchips is almost finished. The German...

A group of security research firms (Foundstone, @Stake, Guardent, ISS and more) formed the Organization for Internet Safety (OIS) in 2001. Other...

I was talking to a friend who is a network professional. He told me that his systems where impenetrable. He went on to say that the second that a...

Ok, this is strange.....I had multiple files in multiple folders encrypted into single executable files on my root drive, I used Ashampoo Power...

As security people we probably all now that lots of security threats occur from the inside. Below is just a small quote of the introduction of a...

In it's July issue, Wired Magazine published the full source code for the "Slammer" Internet Worm. Wired's position on this discloser: ...

Some ppl definitly can't accept new technologies. What the point? Digital camera had been around for a while. And ppl that had been privacy...

Has anybody seen these?I was just curiouse what you guys thought about this. It has very audviouse benefits. But what could somebody do to a PC if he...

My client is running Novell Netware 5.0. What happened is..... in an effort to clean students out of the sytem at the end of the year the person...

I know there are quite a few here with strong feelings regarding disclosure of vulnerabilities, so you might be interested in taking a look at this...

from here The rest of the story is here. It seemed the man had a lot of problems and was hard to get along with, Whatever the reason, it...

I want to know what processes can be ended pr disable in Windows XP in Windows Task Manager........ Could anybody can tell me ? JohnHACK needs...

It's interesting that for a site so dedicated to security, logins aren't encrypted.

Hi, I'm screwed! How are you? Here is the problem: I have two 20GB harddrives and a 30 GB 20gb 1: 20GB NTFS Windows partition 20gb 2: 15GB...

Ever wonder who acutely buys those fake computing degrees in those spam e-mails. Well it turns out a senior official at the Homeland Security...

I am using Outpost, and i can't figure out why it keep's opening up all these ports. When i used Sygate it never did anything like this, so i became...

Hi, I have a dsl connection with a linksys router with NAT, OS winxp pro, on the router I chose to close ports 137-139 (netbios). I haven't had any...

Don't know where to put this, but is it possible for people to be able to find exact locations for an IP address. For example, you get someones IP...

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