Category Archives: Software Security

Wireless Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems

After quite some time of silence regarding my work on Wireless Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (WIDS / WIPS), I’m considering continuing that work. In past I have done research, published couple of papers on this topic at conferences and journals and also created concept, basic architecture and design of system and products. This possible “reactivating” of work is particularly pushed by recent interest of companies, organizations and institutions including commercial, government etc, and requirements of many production environments.

This is just brief description. If you are interested in more details or want to consider contribution or investment into this development send me e-mail. Continue reading

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Tricked by Wrong PDFCreator Publisher

You probably need to print your files to PDF format sometimes. You can use Adobe Acrobat for this purpose, but it costs some significant amount of money. If your requirements are not to strong, you can use free open source version named PDFCreator.

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. Real PDFCreator Web site is: http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator. I have been using it for quite some time and it is really good tool. Easy to use and pretty fast, it satisfies most of my needs regarding creating PDF files i.e. printing to PDF from various programs which I use.

But there are some impostors on the Internet. So, be careful, very careful when downloading open source software, as many impostors use well known names and its variations to trick people and then to take many.
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Security Quiz: Test Your Security IQ

Michael Howard and Bryan Sullivan wrote a couple of articles for this month’s MSDN Magazine. One of them is Test Your Security IQ. It’s chance for you to take the challenge. Continue reading

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Edgios or will new Google come from Serbia!?

Edgios is a large-scale distributed search ‘cloud’ that offers higher-quality search results. Users participate in the cloud by downloading the Edgios personal search software, and connecting that software to the net. Continue reading

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MD5 Collisions

It seems that bad days came for MD5 and those who based hashes on it. It is possible to create two executable programs with different functionalities with identical MD5 hash. Therefore, it is possible to create malicious executable which has … Continue reading

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