SECURITY OVERFLOW

HARDENING WINDOWS HOST Part 4: ACCOUNTS AND RIGHTS MANAGEMENTS

Sun, 20 May 2007 19:14:37 +0200

IntroductionWith the release of Vista, many home users are certainly wondering if the migration from XP to Vista is absolutely necessary.As claims the VOX POPULI : "Vista is an evolution, not a revolution".Hardening the system makes XP as secure as Vista.Since the hardware works [...]

PERSONAL HIPS: THE TOP LIST

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:32:03 +0200

The greater part of these products have already been linked in the previous article.Therefore, only products that have not been listed yet are linked.As it often changes (freewares become paid), only paid softwares with or without a free limited versions are notified (P/FLV).When a product is [...]

IDS For HOME USERS

Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:00:45 +0200

Intrusion detection is a large subject, and concerns mostly organizations.It's also important to note that IDS are supplanted by IPS/NIPS.Therefore we'll focus here only on IDS available for home users and Windows systems.First of all, the user must consider the need or not of an IDS on his [...]

HIPS tests news

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:57:30 +0100

I've quite finished the methodology.I've decided to choose a real-life infection approach; and consequently, it means more time for searching malwares and less time for blogging...In the first part of the methodology, the self-protection is tested (process, service and driver) with other [...]

Volunteers for HIPS tests

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0100

I'm looking for volunteers for testing HIPS white list such as DefenseWall, GesWall, AntiExecutable and PrevX (as Zorro PC Protector is in french language only, then i've choosed it for the test). The volunteers (2 per product is enough) must:-have an experience of this kind of prgramms,-be [...]

AN OVERVIEW OF PERSONAL DESKTOP/HOST IPS 2

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:40:00 +0100

Other similar productsThese products monitors some system's area like the registry in order to detect malwares behaviours.They're not integrated (for most of them) at the core of the system (kernel) and then do not operate at a low level: except for specialized registry products (RegRun, [...]

AN OVERVIEW OF PERSONAL DESKTOP/HOST IPS

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:43:00 +0100

AN OVERVIEW OF PERSONAL DESKTOP/HOST INTRUSION PREVENTION SYSTEMS We have seen previously that a line defense with only a firewall and an antivirus is not enough in consideration of the evolution of threats.Products are available to palliate scanners weaknesses and to combat malwares by their [...]

WHY YOU SHOULDN'T RUN ONLY WITH AN ANTIVIRUS + FIREWALL AND WHY A PROACTIVE PROTECTION IS NECESSARY

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0100

In this first article we’ll just show that the couple scanner (antivirus/antitrojan/antispyware) + Firewall is not sufficient to mitigate security risks for home users. Then we'll review and list available Desktop/Host Intrusion Prevention Systems designed for home users. Introduction Mr and [...]

ADVANCED INTEGRITY CHECKERS

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:22:00 +0100

In a previous article, we've reviewed some free integrity checkers.On this article, we'll focus in advanced ones (paid for most of them).Integrity checking for change detection is an important feature for security softwares, especially in intrusion detection1.That's why this option is mostly [...]

ABUSE SHIELD

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0100

AbuseShield" Globesoft AbuseShield" is a comprehensive tool for monitoring and controlling your desktop or server environments so that only the software you specify can run.AbuseShield also monitor file system activities.This means that even if you, by misstake, allow a mallicious [...]