School Bullying Outbreak
To create bully-free classrooms, it’s necessary that we educate teachers, students and parents about the prevalence and consequences of it. We all believe a school should be a safe place for the children, a place where they can learn without fear or apprehension.
Shannon Morse of Hak5 Demonstrate and Talks about the new WiFi Honeypot at ShmooCon 2012
Most wireless devices including laptops, tablets and smartphones have network software that automatically connects to access points they remember. This convenient feature is what gets you online without effort when you turn on your computer at home, the office, coffee shops or airports you frequent. Simply put, when your computer turns on, the wireless radio […]
Dave Porcello, CEO and Technical Lead of Pwnie Express Talks about the Pwn Plug at ShmooCon 2012
Pwnie Express delivers the bleeding-edge cyber security platforms and solutions required to meet this challenge.
Our initial hardware offering, the Pwn Plug, is the first-to-market commercial penetration testing drop box platform. This low-cost plug-and-play device is designed for remote security testing of corporate facilities, including branch offices and retail locations. A security professional or service provider can ship this device to a corporate facility and conduct a security test over the Internet without travel expenses. The Pwn Plug includes a full security auditing software suite and provides covert remote access over Ethernet, wireless, and 3G/GSM cell networks. In the mobile space, Pwnie Express has also developed the most comprehensive commercial security suite for the Nokia N900 mobile platform.
HackersforCharity.org's Johnny Long Interviewed at ShmooCon 2012
We had the opportunity to interview Johnny Long of HackersforCharity.org on the final day of ShmooCon 2012.
Hackers for Charity is a non-profit organization that leverages the skills of technologists. They solve technology challenges for various non-profits and provide food, equipment, job training and computer education to the world's poorest citizens.
White House Presses For New Cybersecurity Laws
White House Presses For New Cybersecurity Laws The White House is urging Congress to pass President Obama's cybersecurity legislation in 2012 to give officials the authority they need to combat "growing and increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats," according to the leading U.S. cybersecurity official. White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt called for legislators to "modernize" outdated laws […]
Google responds to Congress over privacy policy inquiries
Google has responded to Congress, defending its decision to make a controversial change to its privacy policy.
In a 13-page letter (document) to several Congress members, Google explained its decision for changing its privacy policy, and answered a host of questions posed by the lawmakers after the search giant announced its plans.
A List of Top WordPress Security Plugins by EUKHOST.com
The ratio of websites running on CMS’s can be assumed to be more than the custom designed sites built from scratch. Quite understandably, there are more number of users using WordPress than any other CMS, hence it becomes crucial to have enhanced security measures for your site. Due to a large volume of users using WordPress as a platform, an increasing number of hackers and fraudsters try to compromise the security of such sites. In majority of the instances sites running on WordPress are compromised due to outdated files and/or plug-ins. Such outdated versions of the associated scripts act as an easy meal for fraudsters.