Australians are gradually becoming more aware that ‘password’ and ‘0000′ don’t really cut it when it comes to setting passwords (or pin numbers). According to the recently released 2009 Salmat VeCommerce Identity Verification Study, 51% of Australians think their passwords are at risk because they’re too easy to guess.
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Australians are gradually becoming more aware that ‘password’ and ‘0000′ don’t really cut it when it comes to setting passwords (or pin numbers). According to the recently released 2009 Salmat VeCommerce Identity Verification Study, 51% of Australians think their passwords are at risk because they’re too easy to guess.
Read more here.
Posted in Security, 7th May 2009 23:18 GMT
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Microsoft plans to patch a hole in its PowerPoint presentation program, the company said in an advanced bulletin that was notable because it contained only a single update.
As is almost always the case with advanced notification bulletins issued the first Thursday of the month, Microsoft didn't provide many details about the following Tuesday's release, except to say it carried a severity rating of "critical," the company's highest level. That makes it impossible to know for sure what vulnerabilities will be fixed, but it's not hard to guess.
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Posted in Security, 7th May 2009 23:18 GMT
Free whitepaper – Choosing the best CRM for your organization
Microsoft plans to patch a hole in its PowerPoint presentation program, the company said in an advanced bulletin that was notable because it contained only a single update.
As is almost always the case with advanced notification bulletins issued the first Thursday of the month, Microsoft didn't provide many details about the following Tuesday's release, except to say it carried a severity rating of "critical," the company's highest level. That makes it impossible to know for sure what vulnerabilities will be fixed, but it's not hard to guess.
Read more here.
A pair of security researchers claim to have partially cracked WPA encryption, with an attack that takes around 15 minutes.
The technique relies on an undisclosed “mathematical breakthrough,” say researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck, and breaks the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key used to encrypt data between a wireless router and its clients. Currently, the attack works only one way: data traveling from the access point to its clients is vulnerable, while data traveling in the opposite direction is not.
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Diag| Memory: Current usage: 59 MB
Diag| Memory: Peak usage: 85 MB