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On Feb 5th 2008 a new version of TrueCrypt was released. Version 5.0 of the free encryption software offers some basic enhancements and new features.

TrueCrypt now supports not only Windows and Linux but also Mac OS. Under Windows the read/write performance can speed-up by up to 100% due to pipelined operations. A graphical user interface for the Linux version is now available. The Li

Joanna Rutkowska, a rootkit expert, has published a new build of the virtualization rootkit Blue Pill. She provided open access to the source code on bluepillproject.org.
The new version is not just a revision of the prototype presented at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas 2006 but rather a completely new build with new functionality and support for hardware virtualiz

Twenty years ago a German hacker was brought before court. He did break into the US Pentagon computer network and stole confidential information to sell it to the Sovjet secret service KGB.
The hacker calling himself Urmel did not receive much money for the information he sparsely offered to his KGB contact. It have been mostly information about the power of biological and chemical warfare of the US military. But the big bang already was scheduled: He intended to give the full control and

Today Google has published its Safe Browsing API and enables client applications to use Google's Phishing and Malware blacklist. Google's intention is to provide developers with an API that allows them to better protect their users from malicious websites.
Some weeks ago this functionality was added to Firefox already. That time Security Companies like McAfee (SiteAdvisor), Trend Micro (

Last weekend some 1000 webservers in Europe (mainly Italian ones) have been abused to infect users with trojans to spy their privacy. In most cases servers of harmless websites like travel, tourist, cinema businesses have been inoculated with an I-Frame, a single line piece of code, that connects to another server which uses the Web-Exploit-Toolkit MPACK to attack innocent visitors' computer. The Web-Exploit-Toolkit MPACK automatically detects OS and Browser of the victim and tests for known