You can get Trend Micro Internet Security 3.0 free for one year due to a promotion that they currently are doing. The download is on the right side of the screen.
Alternatively, you can download Trend Micro Smart Surfing for Mac for free. Just visit their promotion page. I have not personally used Trend Micro Internet Security or Trend Micro Smart Surfing, but that’s just me.
Hacking WEP is as easy as eating a piece of banana cream pie with chopsticks (it’s easier than it sounds). There are multiple methods of doing such, especially depending on who makes your wireless card (Atheros chipsets allow for additional, faster methods, as well as some other chipsets). The most common way, which is done via a Backtrack live disk or USB in conjunction with Aircrack, can be seen step-by-step in the following video. Watch the video!
A good tactic that some companies take to help encourage users to take the initiative of submitting security vulnerabilities is to reward their users with cash. Google is paying between $500 to $1337 — a number that they purposely chose since “1337″ spells “leet” in geek-speak. I don’t know about you guys, but I’d love to get $1337 for submitting a vulnerability 
My favorite antivirus is Avira. The interface is simple, it doesn’t use too much resources, and it has a high detection rate. The security suite not only includes the antivirus, but also their firewall, which works pretty well. Normally, you can get a free 1 month license to beta test their security suite. However, they ocassionally give out 3 month licenses (and even 6 month licenses sometimes). To get a free 3 month license go Here. To download the actual security suite, which is around 34MB, click Here.
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Deals, Downloads, Security | DarkKnightH20 | 
January 31, 2010 1:30 AM | 
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Though it was inevitable, the 728-bit RSA encryption has been cracked! This means to be truly secure people must use 1024-bit RSA encryption. To crack this encryption, a cluster of computers were used. It took a bit less than half a day and the result was 5 terabytes of data. 1024-bit RSA encryption will be compromised next.
Read more about 768-bit RSA being cracked Here.
I’ve been meaning to post about this since the 28th, but GSM encryption has been cracked. A short excerpt from This Article mentions the possible implications of this and also mentions that an open source software for exercising this has been released.
“On Sunday 27th of December at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) in Berlin, security researchers published open source instructions for cracking the A5/1 mobile telephony encryption algorithm and for building an IMSI catcher that intercepts mobile phone communication. The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) standard for digital mobile phone networks, which is used by around four billion people in 200 countries, is quite insecure, explained cryptography expert Karsten Nohl in front of a large audience of hackers. While this has been known in academic circles since 1994, the evidence now produced leaves “no more room for playing hide and seek” said Nohl.”
Having anti-malware scanners is very important. However, it may not be worth it if the scanner itself make your computer ridiculously slow…The following virus scanners were tested to see which gave the lowest impact on system performance:
Avast! Free 5.0, AVG Anti-Virus 9.0, AVIRA AntiVir Premium 9.0, BitDefender Antivirus 2010, eScan Antivirus 10, ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0, F-Secure Anti-Virus 2010, G Data Antivirus 2010, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010, Kingsoft Antivirus 9 Plus, McAfee VirusScan Plus 2010, Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0, Normal Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7.30, Sophos Anti-Virus 9.0.1, Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2010, and TrustPort Antivirus 2010.
The top five virus scanners that least impacted systems were: AVIRA, Kingsoft, F-Secure, Sophos, and Kaspersky. For a list of all the results, as well as a bunch of information on the testing, check out this PDF.
Wow, that was a long title! Anyway, moving on to the point: We will be holding a contest for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 1-Year licenses!
The contest, if you choose to participate, requires users on the Geek Montage Forum to reach 30 *good* posts. We have 8 keys at the moment to give out so this means that you must be one of the first 8 people to reach 10 posts. This should be pretty easy considering that not many people are posting there yet More information can be read Here On the Forum.
Please note that this giveaway was sponsored by A Blog for Geeks. It’s a cool website. Check it out!
Edit: Only 10 posts are required now. Hopefully we’ll actually get some participation now that it’s lowered. We have loads of visitors, but no people wanting to chat on the forum so far. Come onnnn…We don’t bite 
This offer is valid for attendees and hosts of Windows 7 house parties only.
Check out this Kaspersky Page for additional information.
I’m a little late posting this, but the informaton is still important. Users should patch their system(s) as soon as they can.
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