Re: [ISN] REVIEW: Computer Security for the Home and Small Office, Thomas C. Greene

2004-08-20 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: andy cuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, The need for such a book is huge! Along these very lines I have compiled a webpage detailing various products that a home user can use for FREE and will provide a Windows user with huge leap forward in protection, especially if they are not

[ISN] Opinion: Cryptanalysis of MD5 and SHA: Time for a new standard

2004-08-20 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,,95343,00.html Opinion by Bruce Schneier Counterpane Internet Security Inc. AUGUST 19, 2004 COMPUTERWORLD At the Crypto 2004 conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., this week, researchers announced several weaknesses in common hash

[ISN] NIST makes lists

2004-08-20 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0816/web-nist-08-19-04.asp By Florence Olsen Aug. 19, 2004 A program that experts have said is the missing piece in federal efforts to promote secure computing will be ready later this year. Officials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

[ISN] Microsoft fixes XP SP2 patching flaw

2004-08-20 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0819mspatch.html By John Fontana Network World Fusion 08/19/04 Microsoft Thursday released a fix for the Windows XP Service Pack 2 installation package it provided to corporate users of its free patch deployment server to correct a flaw that would not allow IT