News for 8 November 2008 Year

14:02 Researchers find more flaws in wireless security

WPA networks open to limited attack

Wireless networks that use a popular form of security known as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) are vulnerable to an attack that could compromise certain communications in less than 15 minutes, two researchers plan to tell attendees next week at the PacSec 2008 conference in Tokyo.

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02:09 Inmate hacked prison network, broke into employee database

Plymouth County's not-so-protected computer

A former prison inmate has been arrested and charged with hacking the facility's computer network, stealing personal details of more than 1,100 prison employees and making them available to fellow inmates.

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01:37 Security World: Remotely managed secure flash drives address multitude of security standards

Kanguru Solutions has added powerful new administrative tools to its Kanguru Remote Management Console, to help address government and enterprise security standards. These administrative tools give sy... >>>



00:14 Off the wire: Virtualization: how to isolate application traffic

Many people are concerned with virtualization security (already coined VirtSec), and they're applying that concern from the virtual images all the way down the stack, to the network infrastructure thr... >>>