Tails, a live operating system powered by Debian Linux, provides an environment aiming to protect your privacy and anonymity. You can download the ISO and put it on a DVD, USB drive, or an SD card. From there, you can boot a system into this different operating system while leaving the native operating system untouched. Tails has made quite a name for itself recently with … [Read more...]
Kaspersky’s real-time map of cyber threats
Kaspersky is taking the data they receive from endpoints running their protection and mapping it out in real-time to provide a visualization of attack activity by country. The detection vectors are color coordinated between on-access scans, on-demand scans, web antivirus, mail antivirus, intrusion detection scan, and vulnerability scan. Along with the real-time data, you can … [Read more...]
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0 released
Last month we previewed the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0 Beta and today the final version launched. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0 includes a rewrite of the program and a redesign of the interface. In a perfect world, I like the new interface design. Unfortunately, in our imperfect world, I still think it looks a bit like a fake antivirus program. Version 2.0 includes the … [Read more...]
The Secure Domain Foundation launches
Yesterday, The Secure Domain Foundation sprung to life. I have been following them on Twitter since first catching wind of their intent a while back and yesterday things started happening. SDF launched at ICANN's 49th public meeting, which was held in Singapore. The Secure Domain Foundation is founded by security research Chris Davis, famous for helping take down the Mariposa … [Read more...]
Pwn2Own 2014 begins; Results
The 2014 Pwn2Own competition takes place today and tomorrow at the CanSecWest 2014 conference in Vancouver. The targets to be compromised are the traditional browsers running on fully patched Windows 8.1 x64 and Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. In addition to Chrome, IE11, and Firefox on Windows 8.1 and Safari on OS X, there are separate prizes for vulnerabilities in the category of … [Read more...]