TrueCrypt 6.3 Released

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 — Filed under: Encryption

The latest maintenance release of disk encryption tool TrueCrypt made general availability today, adding most notably updated operating system support, including support for Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6. The release notes don’t indicate anything terrifically critical, so this release may be viewed as optional for users already running at least TrueCrypt 6.1a, the last “highly recommended” maintenance update. That being said, I’ll be immediately updating all installations. More »

Network Attackers: Where In The World 2

Saturday, October 10, 2009 — Filed under: Network Security

Time to tally up the new results since my last report on network intruder geolocation using Whois. Will the trend showing two-thirds of attackers as hailing from China, Russia and the former Soviet bloc hold for this new integration period? Place your bets. More »