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Popular network tool Nmap in CNET security brouhaha

by Paul Ducklin on December 6, 2011 | 20 Comments
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CNET offers a download of the free Nmap software, but not from Nmap's own site. Instead, CNET has wrapped the Nmap installer with a program of its own. On your way to Nmap, you're pushily offered a toolbar first.

Find out why this sort of thing is a Bad Idea.

Black Hat 2010 – are we headed for cybervictory?

by Paul Ducklin on July 30, 2010 | Leave a comment
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Las Vegas in general, and the Black Hat conference in particular, really do seem larger-than-life, as you can see in the video I made at the outset of the event. Even the bookstand offers a bewilderingly eclectic range of publications, Read more…