Category Archives: Hardware Security

IPS, Whom to believe: Gartner or NSS Labs?

An independent test and evaluation of 15 different network intrusion-protection system products from seven vendors showed none were fully effective in warding off attacks against Microsoft, Adobe and other programs. NSS Labs, which conducted the test without vendor sponsorship of any kind, also evaluated the 15 network IPS offerings for their capability in responding to “evasions,” attacks delivered in an obfuscated and stealthy manner in order to hide. In that arena, Juniper Networks and TippingPoint didn’t perform particularly well. Juniper IPS scored lowest at only 17% effectiveness. In that arena, the McAfee and IBM IPS held up particularly well. Continue reading

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The Sky Has Fallen!?

Not many people seem to have noticed that Invisiblethings team has reported the 3rd attack against SMM (Attacking SMM Memory via Intel® CPU Cache Poisoning) which they have found in the last 10 months. Joanna Rutkowska, founder and CEO of … Continue reading

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123 CCTV Security Cameras

If you want to monitor some area, office, room, you should visit this web site. Company 123 CCTV offers security camera surveillance equipment and various accessories (switchers & multiplexers, CCTV monitors, pan, tilt & zoom equipment, wireless trans. & receivers, … Continue reading

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“Unlock” your iPhone!?

Seems interesting if it is true – Tutorial: “Unlock” your iPhone with SuperSim – Hackint0sh.

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Encryption: Security Considerations for Portable Media Devices

IEEE Security and Privacy, issue July/August 2007 (Vol. 5, No. 4), has interesting article Encryption: Security Considerations for Portable Media Devices (subscription required). Abstract With the proliferation of removable media devices, such as iPods and USB drives, large amounts of an … Continue reading

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