I noticed an interesting article on Slashdot today which talks about how Sony has partnered with Stanford University’s Folding@Home project to “harness the PS3′s technology to help study how proteins are formed in the human body and how they sometimes … Continue reading →

The Snort Team is pleased to announce the availability of Snort v2.6.02. This release includes a number of improvements including the following: Added a DNS preprocessor and protocol decoder. This DNS preprocessor addresses vulnerabilites in Microsoft Windows DNS resolution defined … Continue reading →

An excellent article is available over at Howto Forge on “A multi-stage approach to securing your email communication” When speaking of mail server-related security, one tends to limit the issue to message applied security measures, and even more to Antivirus … Continue reading →

DShield.org is an attempt to collect data about cracker activity from all over the internet. This data will be cataloged and summarized. It can be used to discover trends in activity and prepare better firewall rules. Right now, the system … Continue reading →

Description: Samhain is a file system integrity checker that can be used as a client/server application for centralized monitoring of networked hosts. Databases and configuration files can be stored on the server. Databases, logs, and config files can be signed … Continue reading →

The long awaited Windows version of Brian Carrier’s famous file system analysis tool The Sleuth Kit has been released as of September 1, 2006. Description The Sleuth Kit (previously known as TASK) is a collection of UNIX-based command line file … Continue reading →

Live View is a Java-based graphical forensics tool that creates a VMware virtual machine out of a raw (dd-style) disk image or physical disk. This allows the forensic examiner to “boot up” the image or disk and gain an interactive, … Continue reading →