• HP SWFScan Tool – Adobe Flash Application Security Scanner

    Updated: 2009-09-10 22:16:21
    One of the most expanded targets lately in vulnerability research is Adobe’s Flash. It has become a common everyday occurrence on the web; everything from banners, to games, to file uploads. It’s almost hard to find a mainstream site that doesn’t have some sort of flash application running somewhere within the domain. As a result [...]

  • Social Networkers Risk More Than Privacy | Privacy Digest

    Updated: 2009-08-28 15:28:57
    Social Networkers Risk More Than Privacy | Privacy Digest Here is another story about how bad people can use your social network presence against you. In this case, it is about home burglars using information about travel and vacation plans. This really demonstrates why I have this ambivalent relationship with social networking. On the one hand, [...]

  • WinSCP for Secure FTP

    Updated: 2009-08-27 17:33:30
    Good File Transfer Protocol software can be hard to come by. Luckily there are some very good programs out there for those of us who like to throw data around using FTP. This is where WinSCP comes in—it handles all of your FTP needs perfectly, offering secure copy, secure FTP, and regular plain vanilla FTP [...]

  • Hot Chips -- next-generation crypto accelerator

    Updated: 2009-08-26 18:41:23
    Lawrence Spracklen's Blog Skip to content navigation Hot Chips next-generation crypto accelerator My Hot Chips presentation on the next-generation UltraSPARC security accelerator can be found here

  • Substitution ciphers in Cryptol

    Updated: 2009-08-24 20:56:46
    Substitution ciphers are one of the oldest encryption methods, dating back to at least the 15th century. In a substitution cipher, each character in the plain-text is simply “substituted” according to a predefined map. Decryption is simply the substitution in the reverse direction. Wikipedia has a nice description of these ciphers. Obviously, you wouldn’t [...]

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