I’ve been tinkering around with this new application by ESET called SysInspector. And while it is still in testing phase, it does a through scan of your system. This is another must haves for security-conscious computer users at home or at the office.
ESET SysInspector is a free, state of the art diagnostic tool for Windows NT based systems. It peers into your operating system and captures details such as running processes, registry content, startup items and network connections. Once a snapshot of the system is made, ESET SysInspector applies heuristics to assign a risk level for each object logged. Its intuitive graphical user interface enables the user to easily slice through the large volume of data using a slider to select objects of a particular color coded risk level for closer examination. ESET SysInspector is a convenient utility for the tool box of every IT expert and first responder.
It captures every running process, registry, startup items, and much more. It also provides details and threat level of certain apps. It is also portable and you can run it in your USB drive. Another thing I like about the program is you can move the slider to just show the threat level of certain items, filtering it from 1 to 9.
Download it for free at the ESET website.
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This weird looking device will allow you to “sabotage any attempts at eavesdropping on your conversation”. It will jam different frequencies to distort any speech or conversation within its covered radius. The Laser Surveillance Defeater cost $70 a piece.
[via ubergizmo.com]
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If you are unsure that someone’s been stealing from the cookie jar or heck, your wife or husband is cheating on you…why not get this bear spy cam. Give it as a present and make sure its placed where you can see the action. It doesn’t look exactly like Pooh Bear from Disney but it looks cute. Why, you could even use this to spy on your kid’s yaya. You know, just to be sure that she’s not hurting your sweet little kid.
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Apparently there are gamers in China who are planting trojans into Microsoft IIS servers with an exploit code that will steal game logins.
Hundreds of thousands of Web sites – including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government — have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microsoft Windows to install malicious software on visitors’ machines.
On Thursday, Spanish anti-virus vendor Panda Security said that it had alerted Microsoft that a flaw IIS was the cause of all the break-ins. When I asked Microsoft whether they’d heard from Panda or if the hundreds of thousands of sites were hacked from a patched or unpatched flaw in IIS, a spokesman for the company didn’t offer much more information.
According to Finnish anti-virus maker F-Secure, the number of hacked Web pages serving up malicious software from this attack may be closer to half a million.
All of the hacked sites appear to have Javascript coding adding to their page source that silently pulls down malware from a few domains in China, namely nihaorr1.com, and haoliuliang.net.
[source: blog.washingtonpost.com]
So far three different domains have been used to host the malicious content — nmidahena.com, aspder.com and nihaorr1.com. There’s a set of files that gets loaded from these sites that attempts to use different exploits to install an online gaming trojan. Right now the initial exploit page on all domains are unaccessible but that could change. So if you’re a firewall administrator we recommend you to block access to them.
[source: f-secure.com]
For readers of Tambayan.ph, don’t worry coz this site is hosted on a Linux server.
[via geeksaresexy.net]
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KeyScrambler will protect your PC against keylogging softwares.
The browser add-on protects everything you type into a web page on all websites and in all parts of the browser:
* All websites: login credentials, credit card numbers, passwords, search terms and more.
* All parts of the browser: Java, Flash, PDF Forms, including Runescape and many bank logins.
* All web email: Yahoo mail, hotmail, and gmail.
* Major browsers: IE, Firefox, Flock.
Other features
* Protects against keyloggers even on security compromised computers;
* Requires no effort on your part after installation;
* Compatible with other security programs and authentication methods such as tokens and smart cards.
It’s free and has a compact file size.
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