Symantec Unwraps Norton 2011 Suite, Free Tools (NewsFactor)
Symantec Unwraps Norton 2011 Suite, Free Tools Symantec launched the 2011 editions of Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security Wednesday, as the security software maker indicated that 65 percent of consumers worldwide -- and almost three-quarters of U.S. Web surfers -- have already fallen victim to cybercrimes. Read more »
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Hackers find iPhone OS 4.1 jailbreak (Digital Trends)
Hackers find iPhone OS 4.1 jailbreak Hours after Apple released its iOS 4.1 update, coders have identified an exploit in the operating system’s boot ROM. First announced by iPhone Dev-Team member pod2g on Twitter, it has since been confirmed by other hackers. Usually, Apple moves pretty quickly to close loopholes to prevent jailbreaking. Read more »
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Cybercrime is Rampant Around the World, Says Study (PC World)
Cybercrime is Rampant Around the World, Says Study A new study by security vendor Symantec reports that Internet crime has grown into a widespread problem globally. It also provides intriguing insights into consumers' lax attitudes toward online piracy, plagiarism, and other illegally or unethical activities. Some 7,000 adults in 14 nations participated in the Norton Cybercrime Report: The Human ... Read more »
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Study: 65 Percent of Adults Victimized by Cyber Crime (PC Magazine)
Study: 65 Percent of Adults Victimized by Cyber Crime Cyber crime is a threat and a concern nationwide; so much so that 97 percent of adults expect to be victims at some point in their lives, according to a Wednesday study from Symantec. Of the 7,000 users surveyed in 14 countries, 65 percent said they were victimized by some type of cyber foul play. Read more »
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Trend Micro Revamps Entire Product Line With 'Titanium' (PC World)
Trend Micro Revamps Entire Product Line With 'Titanium' Following up Norton's new product launch early Wednesday, Trend Micro announced an overhaul of its entire home user product line on Wednesday, under the moniker "Titanium." The new products, Titanium Internet Security, Titanium Maximum Security, and Titanium Antivirus+, include new features that use cloud computing for malware detection. Read more »
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For the past several years, I have been archiving Bugtraq emails and placing them on LinuxRocket, mainly for my own use. It was a good resource, but needed more functionality, especially with regard to grouping related information. Recently, I decided to build a custom tf-idf engine, using LinuxRocket's Bugtraq archive as the corpus. Preliminary results were promising, so LinuxRocket now leverages that index along with a new engine that creates mutual document associations for those emails. The functionality was then extended to also tie in relevant documents from the AP Security feed.
On the front page, you now see the results of this mutual document association engine. Below each AP security news article are the top 10 most-relevant Bugtraq emails. Upon clicking on one, you are taken to a page where you can read the entire message. At the top of that page you will see a group of related terms. These terms are ones that have been identified as the most relevant to that page and link to other such pages within LinuxRocket. Clicking on one of those links you are then taken to a Term Landing Page that lists the top 30 emails, each with a snippet that includes the relevant terms.
This engine is a custom application written in C++. It uses libexpat, htmltidy, libcurl, and the snowball stemmer. The index generation is completely written from scratch. It runs as a background process and provides regularly updated results in the form of a feed for the frontend webserver to retrieve and display.
People have used LinuxRocket to monitor vulnerabilities, malware reports and software security. Often, emails within Bugtraq suggest security measures that are needed to thwart these issues. LinuxRocket is not a security service, but an information portal for the security minded.
