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Locking Down The Blackberry Network

By On January 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Early last year India threatened to discontinue Blackberry service if Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the Blackberry did not allow the Indian Government to monitor the Blackberry network traffic raising serious security concerns. Here are a few articles from PCWorld, InfoWorld, and CNet.

Now president-elect Barack [...]

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Its the FMI’s Turn at Being Hacked

By On November 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Within weeks of the World Bank’s story breaking about its computer systems being breached by hackers, Fox News has reported here that Cyber-Hackers have broken into the IMF computer system.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by following the [...]

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World Bank Hacked

By On November 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Earlier this year, the World Bank suffered a server security breach in which hackers were able to compromise critical servers.

In what Fox News characterized as an “Unprecedented Crisis“, were one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation, had been raided repeatedly for more than a year.

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Firefox Extensions For Penetration Testing

By On November 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This year at the SecTor security conference in Toronto, Canada, Security Compass introduced a series of open source firefox extensions aiding in penetration testing exercises.

Illuminating the Black Art of Security. SecTor brings the world’s brightest (and darkest) minds together to identify, discuss, dissect and debate the latest digital threats facing corporations today. Unique to [...]

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