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msramdmp: McGrew Security RAM Dumper: Download

admin @ March 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The compiled com32 executable, ready for use with SysLinux. Also, the C source code is included, along with some things needed to compile and link it properly.
McGrew Security - msramdmp : McGrew Security RAM Dumper

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Adobe Photoshop Express Puts the Power of Photoshop Online

admin @ March 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Photoshop Express, the long-awaited free online image editor from Photoshop maker Adobe, will be released as a public beta on Thursday. Unlike Adobe’s more powerful image editing tools for the desktop, Photoshop Express is aimed not at the professional photographer, but at the casual snapshot fan looking to polish up images before sharing them online […]

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4000 US Soldiers dead…stay tuned for more…

admin @ March 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I’ve said it before…every politician wants to do something that will put them into the history books…and not just as a footnote…
9/11 took us to Afghanistan
Bush couldn’t get OBL
Failure
So Bush decided to make Saddam a target…an easy target…after all Daddy went and walked all over them…
So…Saddam was sleeping with OBL and AQ
this was the first […]

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Blu-Ray Disc’s BD+ Copyright Protection Technology Defeated Completely

admin @ March 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet

BD+ is one of the copyright protection layers for Blu-ray discs that compliments AACS, HDCP, BD-ROM Mark and so on. BD+ is a small program recorded on a Blu-ray disc that is executed by player and examines whether the players security keys were changed as well as decodes part of the content encrypted with BD+ […]

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Student Claims to Have Cracked Smartcard Encryption

admin @ March 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet

A University of Virginia graduate student and two fellow hackers say they have cracked the encryption code used to protect millions of wireless “smartcards” in use across the globe.
With the cryptographic formula in hand, the hackers were then able to run it through a computer program that tried out every possible key. It broke the […]

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Attack On Computer Memory Reveals Vulnerability Of Widely-used Security Systems

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The attacks overcome a broad set of security measures called “disk encryption,” which are meant to secure information stored in a computer’s permanent memory. The researchers cracked several widely used technologies, including Microsoft’s BitLocker, Apple’s FileVault and Linux’s dm-crypt, and described the attacks in a paper and video published on the Web Feb. 21.
The team […]

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Software Lets You Send Secret Messages

admin @ March 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Using Ace Zip’s software, Encrypt Text in Picture, couldn’t be easier. On the left side of the interface window, browse for the picture you wish to use. On the right side, type or paste text you wish you embed, from a few words to a lengthy letter. Then click a button to embed the text […]

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Britain makes camera that “sees” under clothes

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A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people’s clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry.The T5000 camera, created by a company called ThruVision, uses what it calls “passive imaging technology” to identify objects by the natural […]

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Student faces Facebook consequences with 147 academic charges

admin @ March 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet

First-year student Chris Avenir is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study group via Facebook last term, where 146 classmates swapped tips on homework questions that counted for 10 per cent of their mark.
The computer engineering student has been charged with one count of academic misconduct for helping run the […]

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Scientists have discovered that laptops can be tricked into giving up encrypted data, including the encryption keys

admin @ March 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Think the data on your laptop is fairly secure? You might want to think again. Scientists have discovered a way to trick the machine into giving up its data, even encrypted data, with the encryption key.
It’s all to do with what’s know as volatile memory. It’s part of the random access memory (RAM), and until […]

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Swedish officials’ passwords revealed by hacker

admin @ March 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Passwords used by many of Sweden’s cyber elite are now available on the internet following a hack against the Swedish Computer Society, an organisation of IT professionals. Among the victims are a former security officer at Microsoft, a Symantec security expert and the director of Sweden’s largest internet bank.
The list of logins for more than […]

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