computer-security

Free (and/or open source) security software

I know about my options for antivirus, antispyware, and firewall, but are there any higher end security tools for any operating systems (although I'm running Windows and Cygwin, so those options would be especially appreciated) to do things like password recovery, computer forensics, and that sort of thing? I'm currently running the Micr...

CPU serial number

How do I obtain the serial number of the CPU in a PC? ...

How can I stay up-to-date on computer (especially software) security?

I recently bought and read a box set of books on security (Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way, Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, and Software Security: Building Security In). Although I think that the contents of these books will be useful for years to come, the authors do acknowledge that the wo...

iPhone client certificate.

I would like to verify that an app I am writing is running on an iPhone. What would be perfect is this: Apple baked an SSL client certificate into each iphone which can be authenticated by a receiving server. I this the case? I have not started researching this yet, I will update with anything I find. UPDATE: Here is some Apple docum...

Security Testing Types

What are the different types of Security Testing? ...

Why are executable files not included in 'Extract All' on one machine, but not another?

We're providing a zip file of our application for testing and the same zip file on two separate machines is extracted differently. One will extract all files, the other will extract all but the executables (.exe and .msi specifically). We're going to have to tell our customers something other than 'use WinZip' (or 7zip, or whatever) Wh...

Software/IT security training and certificate

I am thinking about attending software security training and getting software security certificate. (or IT security in general.) I am in MA Boston area. I am new in software security field and need to know this field for current project and/or future job. Any suggestion about the training and certificate? thanks, EDIT: How about this ...