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Security news roundup: Apple's DNS patch flawed

This week's security events includes news that the DNS patch released by Apple is flawed, a warning about the ease with which eavesdroppers can listen in to most wireless phone conversations, critical holes discovered in K9 Web Protection, and a DOS vulnerability in F-PROT's virus scanner. by Paul Mah

Tags: Phone, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., F-PROT, Scanners, Domain Names, Security, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Hardware, Peripherals, Internet, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2008-08-03

Goolag security tool uses Google to scan sites for vulnerabilities

Goolag Scanner is a Web auditing tool released by the hacker group Cult of Dead Cows. The tool uses the prowess of the search engine to surface vulnerabilities on Web sites. A quote from the cDc Web site: "It's no big secret that the Web is...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Vulnerability, Auditing, Hacker, Tool, Security Tool, Goolag Scanner, Goolag, Productivity, Scanners, Hacking, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Change Management - a critical IT skill

When I interviewed for my current position as the IT Manager for a small business with less than 100 users, I was asked very specifially how I would handle difficult employees.  Sensing a potential problem I clarified the question asking if they had experienced problems with employees not embracing new...

Tags: Information Technology, Secretary, Computer, Change Management, Productivity, Document Management, Leadership, Scanners, Tools & Techniques, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals, Tim Malone

Blog posts 2008-01-30

Mind your USB

For all the latest in expensive security software and peripherals that money can acquire, enterprises inevitably still miss some security holes. It might surprise you, but one security hole often missed out by security managers is the humble universal serial bus USB port. Designed as the interface...

Tags: USB Port, Antivirus, USB, Antivirus Scanner, Scanners, Security, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-20

Defend your network from slow scanning

There are a lot of security tools out there that will scan a wide range of ports and IP addresses. An intrusion detection system IDS will generally catch this type of broad scanning. It will then shut it down by blocking the source IP address or alerting someone to the...

Tags: Attacker, Network, Scanner, Intrusion Detection System, IP, IP Address, Tool, Productivity, Scanners, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Mike Mullins

Blog posts 2007-11-15

Intelligent carts alert shoppers of junk food overload

Most of the time, technology is very beneficial, especially when it saves you time (online shopping vs. hours at the mall), energy (the Roomba vs. the push-it-yourself vacuum), and money (digital cameras vs. spending tons of money on film and photo processing). However, there are times when...

Tags: Food, Shopping Cart, Food & Beverage, Scanners, Manufacturing, Hardware, Peripherals, Sonja Thompson

Blog posts 2007-10-12

What happened to the paperless office?

I remember back 20 or more years ago, when word processors were commonly replacing all those IBM Selectric typewriters, and when computing was beginning to become more the rule than the exception, the term paperless office was thrown around as though it would actually become a reality. However, instead of...

Tags: Printer, Office, Printers, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Joe Rosberg

Blog posts 2007-10-09

Torrentspy.com court ruling: Judge orders tracking of users

File sharing sites come under the scanner again with the Central District of California federal judge ordering Torrentspy.com, a BitTorrent site, to begin tracking its users activities as possible evidence in a "copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a handful of movie studios and the MPAA Motion Pictures Association Of America....

Tags: MPAA, TorrentSpy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Scanners, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-06-11

Practical illustration for the computer-inclined: Part 4--Coloring

Back when you left your masterpiece in Part 3--Inking, you had a bold, contrast-filled black-and-white illustration. Here we'll take it just a step further, using your computer to add a bit of color and texture. (See--there's a reason I called this "Practical illustration for the computer-inclined"!)There are many image-manipulation software...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Illustration, Computer, Productivity, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Eve Lee

Blog posts 2006-12-06

Defend your network from slow scanning

Most serious attackers aren't going to advertise their intentions by performing a broad scan—the smartest attackers will try to come in under your detection radar. In this edition of Security Solutions, Mike Mullins discusses why attackers prefer slow scanning, examines the tools they use, and tells you how to defend...

Tags: IP, Scanners, Intrusion detection, PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, Network security, SECURITY, Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, intrusion detection system, network, tool, scanner, IP address, attacker, Security Solutions Newsletter, Mike Mullins, Hardware, Peripherals, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"

Technical articles 2006-11-16

Virus scanning with KlamAV

This tip tells you about the cross-platform virus scanner ClamAV and the KDE-based front end KlamAV. While scanning for viruses on Linux, in and of itself, isn't overly useful to the Linux user, it definitely can be if the files are being received or stored by a...

Tags: KlamAV, ClamAV, Linux, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Vincent Danen, Cyberthreats, OPEN SOURCE, Scanners, Operating systems, virus, Linux Tips Newsletter, Virus-scanner, TechRepublic Inc., GUI, KDE, Software

Technical articles 2005-08-15

Virus scanning with ClamAV

If you're looking for an open source virus scanner, check out ClamAV, which ships with most Linux distributions. ClamAV scans for viruses as e-mail arrives. To date, Linux has experienced only a small number of viruses. Some of these viruses exist but aren't active, and they...

Tags: ClamAV, Linux, Cyberthreats, Vincent Danen, Scanners, Viruses and worms, Operating systems, virus, scanner, Linux Tips Newsletter, Virus-scanner, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Open Source, Security, Software

Technical articles 2005-05-27

Ashampoo AntiVirus 1.61 (Windows)

Ashampoo AntiVirus offers comprehensive protection against viruses, worms, Trojans and dialers. Set it, forget it, and get on with more important things. It protects against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and dialers and includes advanced heuristic-analysis algorithms that can identify as-yet unknown threats on the basis of their behavior. It checks...

Tags: Protection, Trojan Horse, Microsoft Windows, Dialer, Worm, Virus, Ashampoo, Background Scanner, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Scanners, Security, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-03-21

How do I... Map my network with Nessus 3 in Windows?

Nessus is a powerful, cross platform network scanner that does many things. By using Nessus to scan your network you can save the results, giving you an outstanding map of your current network. It's an easy way to keep track of how many systems you have, what systems are deployed,...

Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows, Jack Wallen, Nessus, Scanners, Networking, Hardware, Peripherals

Download resources 2008-12-17

HP Scanjet Scanner Powers Document Capture for Legal Archive

For years, the Intellectual Property group in the HP legal department has captured every document it uses-from simple correspondence to multi-page patent and trademark documents with complex illustrations-in a digital document archive. They wanted to make document scanning fast and easy despite variety in the size, shape and weight of...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Scanners, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Peripherals, Research & Development, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-12-01

PaperArchiver 2.8.3 (Windows)

PaperArchiver is a document management tool for home and office users. PaperArchiver scans paper documents twain scanner interface, encrypt, compress, annotate, and locate unlimited documents with assigned keywords and descriptions. All file types are supported and can attached to documents. Version 2.8.3 includes program update and twain interface update. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PaperArchiver, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Scanners, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-04-03

Martin2k NoteBook 5.2 (Windows)

NoteBook allows you to store multiple documents pages in one file. There is a full Rich Text Editor, which allows you to choose fonts and text formatting options. Types of pages that can be stored include Rich Text Format, plain text, HTML, pictures (GIF, JPEG, PNG, and BMP), images from...

Tags: Archiving, Microsoft Windows, Martin2k, Business Intelligence, Scanners, Notebooks, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets

Software downloads 2008-03-31

Art-Copy Enterprise 8.3.2 (Windows)

Art-Copy Enterprise gives you an easy to use scanning software alternative. With Art-Copy Enterprise you can use our simple one button style front end, with scan-to buttons that support scanning directly to printers, faxes, files, or even applications. Art-Copy Enterprise also packs a powerful variety of scan settings including turning...

Tags: Jetsoft, Scanners, Fax, Printers, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2007-01-16

WiFiFoFum 1.1 (Mobile)

The best mobile WiFi scanner comes to the iPhone. WiFiFoFum scans for 802.11 wireless networks and displays information about each network it detects, including: SSID, MAC, RSSI signal strength, channel, AP mode, security mode and transmission rates. The radar display provides a graphical representation of nearby WiFi access points. Note:...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Aspecto Software, Wireless LANs, Digital Music, Wi-Fi, Digital Media, Scanners, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-03-11

SilverFast DCSE 6.6.0r3 (Windows)

SilverFast DCSE is specially designed for those who want to enter the world of creating and optimizing images from a digital camera. Images will be mainly benefit from SilverFast's intelligent automatic functions which help to make the process of adjusting much easier. Numerous online Quicktime movies can be started as...

Tags: LaserSoft Imaging, SilverFast DCSE, Scanners, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Microsoft Windows, Digital Music, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-30