When the authorities send a subpoena to Facebook for your account information, what do they receive? Here is a document showing the pages and pages of data Facebook hands over.

The Secure Socket Layer, SSL for short, is a protocol by which many services that communicate over the Internet can do so in a secure fashion.

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For more than a decade, the Nmap Project has been cataloguing the network security community's favorite tools. In 2011 this site became much more dynamic, offering ratings, reviews, searching, sorting, and a new tool suggestion form. This site allows open source and commercial tools on any platform, except those tools that we maintain (such as the Nmap Security Scanner, Ncat network connector, and Nping packet manipulator).

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Darlene is a freelance writer with a background in information technology and information security. Most security news is about insecurity, hacking and security threats, bordering on scary. But when security is done right, it's a beautiful thing...sexy even. Security is sexy.

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The best tools to help you preserve your privacy online. Surf securely and communicate with privacy. No adware, no spyware, just good software

The Mac needs to be as secure as the iPhone. The good news is Apple already has the tools. The bad news is they are forcing developers to use the wrong ones.

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Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (Nping).

Nmap was named “Security Product of the Year” by Linux Journal, Info World, LinuxQuestions.Org, and Codetalker Digest.

Recent revelations by WikiLeaks that hundreds of companies are spending billions to find ways to spy on you through your iPhone, Blackberry, or Gmail account serve as a wakeup call. You need to know a few things about what's going on to protect yourself.

A detailed list of steps you can take to secure access to your server via SSH (secure shell).

Modern Linux installations ship with many of these security options enabled by default, but there are a lot of tips and tools worth investigating, like DenyHosts.

More information about Carrier IQ.

What you can do to make sure your private data stays that way.

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racoon speaks the IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) key management protocol, to establish security associations with other hosts. The SPD (Security Policy Database) in the kernel usually triggers racoon

In the wake of rising scam reports, the company has launched new protective measures and released statistics on attacks.

Defence in Depth is an information security blog which aims to consolidate security news, resources, tutorials, research and information.

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UPDATE [2011-10-15]:
The issues described in this post have now been resolved by Apple. Users running OS X Lion 10.7.2 or security update 2011-006 are no longer affected by the vulnerabilities detailed below (CVE-2011-3435 and CVE-2011-3436). For further details on this security update please see Apple's advisory.

OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users of the Internet rely on

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A conversation with Nicholas Felton shows how Facebook's new apps will uncover uncomfortable truths about users -- and how the same data could enable entirely new kinds of targeted advertising

ClamXav is a free virus scanner for Mac OS X. It uses the very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end and has the ability to detect both Windows and Mac threats.

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People are rightly hesitant to put all their private data in the hands of big corporations, but Gelernter argues that this is in fact the safest place for it.

The Tor Browser Bundle lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB Flash drive, comes with a pre-configured Web browser and is self-contained. The Tor IM Browser Bundle additionally allows instant messaging and chat over Tor.

Since November 2010, hundreds of customers have seen their iTunes gift card balances zeroed out by mysterious unwanted purchases

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Now, though, it's now time to leave. There's no crisis. I haven't made a big mistake. And I still look forward (almost) every day to going into work. But I also enjoy self-employment and I can feel its call. It could be something to do with the fact that insecurity can make your life simpler. It could be that I will certainly have much more time in my week. Or it could be that, comfortable and happy as I am at Wired, every so often I need to head out into the Great Unknown.

Gigapixel photos are giant panoramas that themselves consist of hundreds of component mega-pixel digital shots. This means that you can begin with, say, a distant view of London or Seville or San Francisco -- and then keep zooming in until you are looking at individual buildings, cars, street signs, people. It's the effect we've come to take for granted with Google Earth, but with much greater close-in photographic clarity.

Web programs and apps alert parents to sexting, bullying and other problems.

All modern browsers have built-in tools and add-ons to protect users from having their Web behavior tracked. But regardless, some sites still find ways to track you. Here are tips for taking matters into your own hands.

Facebook will attempt to address some perceived weaknesses of its interface by making content sharing more precise and visual in a redesign that launches this week.

Google issued a new study on Wednesday detailing how it is becoming more difficult to identify malicious websites and attacks, with antivirus software proving to be an ineffective defense against new ones.

A wearable jamming technology could protect patients with implants from potentially life-threatening attacks.

Code signing is a technology for associating a cryptographically secure signature with your application’s executable code. This signature makes it possible for the operating system or other services to make confident assumptions of authenticity based on the unique signature which you’ve supplied.

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Facebook's phone book feature is causing a ruckus.
Phone numbers are automatically showing up in user's contacts lists.
Millions of underage Facebookers could be vulnerable, despite the company's prohibition on those under 16.

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The Black Hat Briefings remains the biggest and the most important technical security conference series in the world by remaining true to our core value: serving the information security community by delivering timely, actionable security information in a friendly, vendor-neutral environment.

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The simplicity of cloud computing might be appealing to some users, but connectivity and security are still concerns. Here's a checklist of considerations to ponder before you take the plunge with the newly-emerging Google Chromebook.

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A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is “practically indestructible,” security researchers say.

“TDL-4,” the name for both the bot Trojan program that infects machines and the ensuing collection of compromised computers, is “the most sophisticated threat today,” said Kaspersky Labs researcher Sergey Golovanov

Anonymizer, a company that helps businesses and individuals conceal private information when searching the Web

Your passwords are stored on more sites than ever—too bad you've never bothered to change them

The latest LulzSec attacks revealed that most victims used email passwords that were easy to decipher. A good password doesn't have to be impossible to remember. Here are tips for protecting your accounts.

Whether you just regained access to Gmail, or you want to make sure your account is secure, take a minute to complete our Gmail security checklist to make sure your mail security measures are up to date.

34 percent of Twitter users don't fill out the "location" field with accurate information, but a new algorithm can infer it from their tweets

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis

An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

asking users to input their email address and password from a third-party site like GMail or Yahoo Mail is completely unacceptable. Here’s why:
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