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Researchers from the Netherlands, Switzerland and the U.S. say they have found a way to copy the digital identity and authority assigned to VeriSign's RapidSSL , security credentials to help users i... More >
Scammers are using redirector links on interactive Web sites belonging to magazines, universities and even Microsoft and the Internal Revenue Service to take visitors to their malicious links, repor... More >
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has notified more than 1,000 patients that their personal information may have been used in attempts to defraud insurance companies, reports The Los Angeles Times . &nb... More >
A Winnipeg businessman is left with a $52,000 bill after hackers broke into his office system and made hundreds of calls to Bulgaria, reports CBCnews.ca . Alan Davison, owner of HUB Compute... More >
Barracuda Networks is forecasting that spam volumes will rise to more than 95 percent of all e-mail in 2009, reports vnunet.com . The prediction seems to fall in line with a Cisco report ... More >
Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers brought up the rear in a test of password managers that found all the popular browsers could do better, reports IDG in a story on CIO.com. Secur... More >
Logging companies in Brazil have been using hackers to get around limits on the amount of timber they can cut from the Amazon rainforest, reports BBC News . To control logging, the state of... More >
Bit9 has released its list of the 12 most vulnerable applications commonly found behind corporate firewalls. According to vnunet.com , Mozilla's open source Firefox browser tops the list, f... More >
Most wire-transfer businesses in Los Angeles and Las Vegas were infected with viruses capable of stealing financial information in a study by Spanish security software vendor Panda Security, which, o... More >
The FTC is asking a court to shut down two businesses it says are behind a massive scareware scam , reports vnunet.com . According to The Inquirer , the FTC claims Innovative Marketing, Inc... More >
The FBI has issued a warning about a vulnerability in the open source VoIP package Asterisk . Ars Technica reports that initial warning about the vulnerability was vague, saying only that re... More >
A report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies asks President-elect Barack Obama to establish a new White House department that focuses on protecting U.S. cyber interests from hac... More >
According to a new report by consultancy Corsaire, almost a quarter of Web applications have critical security issues or vulnerabilities . The paper, which analyzed applications from leading ... More >
Under scrutiny by Russian security company Elcomsoft, Adobe has admitted that password protection in Acrobat 9 is weaker than in Acrobat 8, reports Network World . Elcomsoft makes softwa... More >
Electronics chain Tweeter, which apparently has nothing to do with Twitter, has ticked plenty of people off recently after quickly shutting its 60 stores, firing 600 employees before the end of its l... More >
Online bill payment company CheckFree.com regained control of its Web site early Tuesday after hackers hijacked traffic to a server in the Ukraine that tried to install malicious software on users'... More >
Both Sun Microsystems and VMware have posted fixes for popular programs, reports vnunet.com . Sun's patch addresses 18 security and stability problems in Java . Although the company isn't pr... More >
Webroot has teamed up with recycling company Centillion to launch the Go Green campaign, a free recycling service for legacy security hardware. As we know, nothing in life is truly free. The servic... More >
Despite the gnashing of teeth at the Los Angeles Times and U.S. News and World Report , this Forbes piece calls the virus infecting military computers a run-of-the-mill Trojan. And it says th... More >
An aggressive computer virus in November infected nearly three quarters of the computers on the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan, according to U.S. News and World Reports . The virus... More >
Online payment gateway AlertPay.com was down most of Sunday after being hit by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack, reports ZDNet . The seven hours it took to deal with the a... More >
With the help of a grant from the U.S. Army Research Office, SRI International has developed software that can help users determine if their computers have been turned into bots. BotHunter "is... More >
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