According to the site “Russix is a Slax based Wireless Live Linux.” It can be used for wardriving or other wireless auditing tasks like that. It’s not very big at only about 230mb. For now at least, it only supports the Etheros chipset. It’s a focused, light solution for a wireless […]

The UK HM Revenue & Customs agency admitted to having possibly leaked 25 million people’s financial data.  The head of the agency resigned, taking responsiblity for the loss the personal data.  Read more at SecurityFocus.

According to WhiteHat Security’s regular scans eight in ten high traffic web sites are vulnerable to attack.  These vulnerabilities include security holes that would allow attackers to steal data and create phising sites along with several other attacks.
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With their first four blog postings about malware, virtualazation, and phising attacks Google Online Security Blog seems to off to a good start.

With all the buzz about web 2.0 and the growing open source community the importance of security is sometimes forgotten. When you want something cool and snazzy for your site and you find a open source solution, it’s easy to install the app on your site and forget about it. When the app, tool, forum, […]