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Microsoft is releasing best practices for enterprise workers who are considering using their personal technology device for work and play. This business trend, known as BYOD, continues to grow as more devices enter the marketplace giving consumers a variety of choice in terms of functionality and application for work and home.
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You’re sat at your PC. You’re not using the internet, and neither is anyone in your house who’s connected to the same router as you. And yet the lights on the router keep flashing. Clearly something is sending or receiving data, even though it’s not you.
Ever wanted to find out what’s doing all that communicating?
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Each user account of a Windows operating system has specific permissions assigned to it. This determines which files can be accessed or modified among other things. Administrators can modify those permissions, to give additional rights to a user or remove rights instead. A simple example is a configuration file that you do not want users to modify in any way or form. You could remove the write permission so that users cannot modify it anymore.
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From Target’s stolen PIN codes to Snapchat’s leaked user information, it seems no company is impervious to a data breach. To defend your business in this new age, you need to know the potential threats you face and how to safeguard against them.
That’s one reason McAfee Labs, the research division of the cybersecurity software company McAfee, has released a list of what it believes will be the biggest cyber threats for business owners in 2014.
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Hydra is a parallelized network logon cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack, new modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast.
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Two weeks after a massive data breach hit the retailer Target, financial institutions in Alaska are still working to reissue debit and credit cards to thousands of customers across the state.
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A day after the Syrian Electronic Army said it had hacked into Skype’s social media accounts, the Internet calling service acknowledged on Thursday it had been hit with a "cyber attack" but said no user information was compromised.
According to the BBC, German researchers revealed during the Chaos Computing Congress on Dec. 28 in Hamburg, Germany, that criminals used USB drives during a ATM robbing spree last summer. Although ATMs have been the target of attacks for decades, they often run older software, making it easier for criminals to hack the systems.
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Some days ago it became public knowledge that some routers, that’s devices used for establishing Internet connections among other things, are listening on the undocumented port 32764. First, it was only discovered in one device, the Linksys WAG200G, but it was soon discovered that many routers were also listening on that port.
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xssless is an automated XSS payload generator written in python.
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