The Windows Vista Firewall is definitely better than the Windows XP Firewall because it is able to control incoming and outgoing connections. If you have to rely on the firewall you might feel that it is missing several features known from desktop firewalls. That’s where Vista Firewall Control comes into play. The free version of [...]
Microsoft August 2008 Security Updates
Microsoft has just released the security patches of the August 2008 Patch Day, a total of eleven updates for various Microsoft operating systems and products that are recommended updates. Six of the eleven updates are critical updates while the remaining five are classified as important.
The easiest way to obtain those updates would be to head [...]
Game Over For Windows Vista’s Security?
I picked up an interesting story over at Neowin entitled “Vista’s Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit” which reports on a new technique hat can “bypass all memory protection safeguards that Microsoft built into Windows Vista.”
The researchers were able to load whatever content they wanted into any location they wished on a user’s machine [...]
Data Can Leak From Partially Encrypted Systems
A bunch of researchers, among them the famous Bruce Schneier, have discovered that features like Recent Documents list may reveal information about files on an encrypted partition even when used in conjunction with the so called deniability feature which hides data in an encrypted partition.
I’m a bit puzzled that it took them so long to [...]
Monitor Folders For File Changes And Additions
I was always puzzled that Microsoft did not integrate a software into Windows that would monitor specific folders for file changes and list the changes in a table to provide the user with means to analyze those changes. An application like this that would probably even pop up in real time informing the user that [...]
True Crypt 6 released
True Crypt is my encryption software of choice and I was very pleased with version 5 which added the option to encrypt the complete operating system and increased the performance of the application noticeably. Less than half a year after publishing True Crypt 5 the developers have already finished their work on version 6 and [...]
Gernova Keylock
Gernova Keylock is a specialized software to detect keyloggers on a system. Keyloggers are used to log user input which includes urls that the user enters as well as usernames, passwords and even information like credit card data or account numbers. The application is portable and can be run from any location.
It’s unfortunately only [...]
