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Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo Finally, they can scan the garment's label barcode to get precise information about colour, size and price. The SmartTransaction watch has a port for a SIM-sized smart card that acts as a payment card. [27 Jun 2008]
Implementing Real Time Port Scan Detection for the IP Backbone
White Paper Targeting the IP backbone, the paper puts all the pieces together in an implementation of an online port scan detecting and tracking system for high speed networks. Although many algorithms have been... [29 Feb 2008]
Eliminating your SSL Blind Spot
White Paper Traditional firewalls and gateway anti-virus solutions are unable to scan encrypted traffic, and therefore can provide no control over what content is sent in and out of organisations' networks via HTTPS. [07 Feb 2007]
Recognize and react to the signs a hacker is preparing to attack your network
White Paper This list gives valuable information to help you recognize, detect and react to the following attack precursors: increase in port scan activity; unauthorized access attempts; application scanning;... [18 May 2006]
Beware the 'pod-slurping' employee
News At a rate of around 100MB every two minutes, it can scan and download the files onto the portable storage units in a process dubbed 'pod-slurping'. Alternatively the person stealing data need not even have access to a... [15 Feb 2006]
Zotob worm fails to wreak havoc
News Zotob.A and Zotob.B scan the internet for vulnerable systems using TCP port 445, a port typically blocked by a firewall, he said. A new worm that was unleashed over the weekend affects... [16 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.08.05
Round-Up By way of a digression (c'mon, it's Friday), a quick scan of a website called "Texas Longhorns: A history of longhorn cattle and guide to viewing the State of Texas' longhorn herd" (always the Round-Up's first... [09 Aug 2005]
Worm outbreak feared after port scanning spike
News Like would-be burglars knocking on doors looking for a likely target, internet intruders sometimes scan random computers to see if a particular network port is available, as a precursor to attack. A... [24 Jun 2005]
Virus hijacks open source servers
News It then performs an IP scan looking for other computers to infect and begins another process of SQL injections. Although experts are still unclear on exactly how the infection mechanism works, machines running almost all... [28 Jan 2005]
Biometrics: Your questions answered
Comment It will require all the hardware to provide a means to do a scan. My main worry about biometrics, other than the astronomical cost, is what would happen if the scan came up negative for some reason?... [20 Aug 2004]
'This is the final variant' says Netsky virus writer
News In Netsky.K's code the author writes: "We want to destroy malware writers business [sic], including MyDoom & Bagle… To F-Secure and so on, we do not want damage systems… We have respect of your work (Your heuristic scan... [10 Mar 2004]
'Stupid' administrators left Davos open to hack attack
News Using a port scan, the culprit found an open port in the system. The attack - for which a suspect has been arrested - was apparently made easy by lax security and carelessness on the... [05 Mar 2001]
