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PCWorld reports that a survey by security firm AVG shows that only 27 percent of social networkers are protecting themselves against online threats. Some interesting results from the survey includ... More >
According to research by Trend Micro, 44 percent of smartphone users are ignoring the potential dangers of malware and other targeted threats, reports V3.co.uk . While a third say they are less co... More >
Hackers were able to take down the Apache Software Foundation 's Web site last weekend after compromising the SSH key for one of its servers, reports V3.co.uk . The server was down for several hours... More >
The Miami man accused of being the mastermind behind the largest identity fraud case in U.S. history will plead guilty to conspiracy , wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges, reports The ... More >
The FBI is looking into who is sending HP laptops to state governors . According to Computerworld , West Virginia, Wyoming and Vermont are among the recipients of four of the orders that were deliv... More >
Cisco is warning about about two vulnerabilities in its Unified Communications Manager software, reports V3.co.uk . The bugs could allow an attacker to launch a DoS attack to bring down voice servi... More >
Symantec says it has found source code for a Trojan that goes after Skype users . According to V3.co.uk , the spyware, known as Trojan.Peskyspy, records a voice call and then saves the data as an M... More >
Software developer James Slater says Twitter has yet to fix a cross-site scripting bug he disclosed yesterday, reports Computerworld . The vulnerability allows criminals to hijack accounts or redi... More >
A pair of Japanese computer scientists claim to have developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about a minute, reports Computerworld . The attack, which only w... More >
With Apple's Mac OS X 10.6, also known as Snow Leopard, set to launch later this week , some security issues are starting to pop up. According to InformationWeek , Trend Micro is warning tha... More >
According to a report from IBM's X-Force, Trojans are behind more than half of all new malware attacks, reports Computer Business Review . In the first half of 2009, Trojans comprised 55 percent o... More >
According to InfoWorld , Symantec has released a software fix for "less than 1 percent" of users who reported problems with a buggy update of the company's Norton AntiVirus software. The fl... More >
According to research commissioned by RSA Security, most IT decision-makers are unsure of the sources of internal risk and struggle to quantify the impact in financial and business terms, reports ... More >
V3.co.uk reports that according to MessageLabs' latest Intelligence report, botnets have become more resilient , springing back to life much faster than before. Compared to the weeks it took for bo... More >
ScanSafe warns that over 50,000 legitimate sites have been hit by a new SQL injection attack , reports V3.co.uk . The attack inserts a malicious iframe on the sites. Users that visit the sit... More >
According to ITWorld , some of Cisco's wireless access points have a flaw that could allow an attacker to redirect traffic outside the enterprise or potentially gain access to an entire corporate ... More >
According to a report co-authored by researcher Balachander Krishnamurthy and professor Craig E. Wills, online s ocial networking sites leak personal information through a combination of HTTP heade... More >
Terry Childs, a former network administrator in San Francisco who was arrested last year for allegedly sabotaging a crucial city network , may have caught a lucky break when a judge dismissed three ... More >
The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center is warning its members of a sharp rise in the number of attacks on the banking sector. According to the report, most of the attacks are... More >
The fact that a Symantec report shows spam now comprises 89 percent of all e-mail messages shows that spammers are busy coming up with new avenues of attack. The latest spam attack, accordin... More >
Trend Micro hopes that by by reducing the footprint of anti-virus software, its Internet Security 2010 will allow systems to run faster and with fewer interruptions. According to V3.co.uk ... More >
internetnews.com reports that security researcher Ronen Zilberman has disclosed a new Cross-Site Request Forgery attack that steals a Facebook user's information by using an HTML image tag. The at... More >
Computerworld reports that according to Purewire, hackers are more likely to use Opera . Why? It's because they know that other hackers don't target the browser, explains Paul Royal, a principal se... More >
Cisco is warning of a vulnerability in several of its routers and switches. According to V3.co.uk , the flaw could allow an attacker to cause a DoS crash on vulnerable hardware , which inclu... More >
Security experts are criticizing Australian police for a major cyber crime bust that seems to have backfired . According to V3.co.uk , authorities were attempting to infiltrate the r00t-y0u ... More >
Researchers from PandaLabs warn that identity thefts from malware could skyrocket to 600 percent this year, reports V3.co.uk . Nearly 71 percent of the 35,000 new malware samples the company finds... More >
An unspecified number of Radisson hotels and customers have been affected by a security breach, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . Credit card numbers of guests may have been accessed... More >
The Internet Storm Center believes that attacks on the WINS service vulnerability in Windows Server are originating in China, but are not yet widespread, reports NetworkWorld . The vulnerab... More >
According to V3.co.uk , Adobe has issued patches to fix multiple vulnerabilities in its ColdFusion web development and JRun Java administration tools. The flaws could allow remote code execution o... More >
In an effort to help enterprises secure their Wi-Fi networks, Motorola's AirDefense Wireless Vulnerability Assessment product allows IT departments to test security by simulating attacks from the h... More >
According to The San Francisco Chronicle , a report from Breach Security shows that attacks on social networks rose 30 percent in the first half of 2009 compared to a year ago. VentureBeat , whic... More >
PC Advisor reports that some users of HSBC's personal Internet banking site were given a false warning by Kaspersky Internet Security software that they had been infected by the HTLM-Agent-CE Troj... More >
Research in Motion has introduced a new version of its BlackBerry Smart Card Reader in an effort to improve security and make multi-factor authentication easier for organizations, reports V3.co.uk... More >
According to AppleInsider , Apple is aware of a flaw in its iPhone OS 3.0 that prevents an e-mail from being completely deleted. Even after the Mail trash can is emptied, e-mail messages are still... More >
According to the Justice Department, Albert Gonzalez of Miami and two unnamed Russian conspirators are the masterminds behind data thefts that gave them access to more than 130 million credit and d... More >
A report from NSS Labs shows that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 was able to catch 81 percent of attack-code-infected sites , an improvement of 17 percent since March, reports Computerworld . &nbs... More >
According to security researcher Jose Nazario, hackers are using Twitter to keep their botnets up and running , reports Computerworld . Nazario discovers a Twitter account, called "Upd4t3," that wa... More >
According to a reports from the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, an independent nonprofit research institute that assesses the impact of cyber attacks, Russia was indeed behind the DoS attacks against ... More >
As a way to thwart the rising tide of spam, Yahoo is proposing a paid e-mail service. According to V3.co.uk , Yahoo's new service, which is known as CentMail , allows users to buy packs of 5... More >
Trend Micro is warning about a rogue Facebook app that is luring users to a site hosted on the fucabook.com domain that is set up to harvest their credentials, reports V3.co.uk . The app, wh... More >
Sophos' newest Security Threat Report says that online criminals have gone where the people are: social networks. As more employees share various types of personal information on these sites, IT te... More >
By design, many pieces of malware that are released have a very short life span, in order to avoid detection. PandaLabs researchers found that around half of all of that malware is not active or targ... More >
More than 34 percent of U.S. companies that responded to a Proofpoint survey on e-mail security and data loss prevention reported that they had had a leak of sensitive data in the last year, accord... More >
Twitter is still suffering from the denial-of-service attacks that began last week, reports V3.co.uk . Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says the attacks appear to be geo-political in nature, but stopp... More >
FOX Business reports that spam made up 89 percent of all e-mail messages in July, according to Symantec. The report also shows that there was a 52 percent rise in phishing attacks in July from June... More >
Sun Micrososytems is issuing a significant security update for Java SE 6 , reports internetnews.com . The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or bypass authentication ... More >
According to V3.co.uk , users can expect nine security fixes in this month's patch Tuesday, scheduled for August 11. Five of the fixes are rated as "critical," with three of those five affe... More >
It's been a bad couple of days for Twitter. Not only is the micro-blogging site battling a DoS attack , but now V3.co.uk reports that a variant of the Koobface worm is using Twitter to spread. T... More >
Facebook and Google also were hit by the same DoS attack that shut down Twitter for a period of time yesterday, reports Bloomberg . The attacks had little effect on Google. Facebook says full acc... More >
Twitter was down for hours this morning due to what is being referred to as an “ongoing” denial-of-service attack , reports Wired . Access to client applications also was affected. The outage was f... More >
The personal data of about 131,000 National Guardsmen has been compromised following the theft of a laptop from an Army Guard contractor on July 27, reports ArmyTimes . The laptop contained names,... More >
Not only did Symantec participate in the recent $40 million fund raise by identity theft protection company Lifelock, but the two companies have formed a partnership, according to VentureBeat . The ... More >
Apple's newest version of Mac OS X patches 18 vulnerabilities , including six that could allow an attacker to hijack machines. According to Computerworld , Mac OS X 10.5.8 fixes a Portable N... More >
Twitter has quietly started filtering URLs in an effort to weed out links to known malware sites, reports The Wall Street Journal . Now, if you post a link to a fraudulent site, the following messa... More >
Codenomicon is warning that applications built with XML libraries from Sun, Apache Software Foundation, Python Software Foundation and the GNOME Project could be at risk for denial-of-service attack... More >
Radware security researchers Itzik Kotler and Tomer Bitton recently demonstrated at the DEFCON security conference how even cautious computer users are vulnerable on public Wi-Fi networks due to a f... More >
The U.S. has sentenced three Chinese men for trying to smuggle sensitive and advanced U.S. technology to China, reports PCWorld . According to Computerworld , William Chi-Wai Tsu was sente... More >
According to tests by Virus Bulletin, 12 out of the top 35 security vendors fail to protect Windows Vista , reports V3.co.uk . The stringent test, which pits products against the publicly av... More >
Real Host, an ISP based in Latvia, has been taken offline after a researcher discovered that the ISP controlled command-and-control servers for infected botnet PCs, reports Computerworld . Real Hos... More >
According to Computerworld , Mozilla closed its online store after it found out that the firm it hired to run the backend operations of the e-store, GatewayCDI, had suffered a security breach. The... More >
Trend Micro has added new free tools to its online threat resource center. According to V3.co.uk , TrendWatch now boasts VM Protection, a free tool that helps companies or service providers ... More >
Mozilla has updated Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.0 to address three security vulnerabilities , reports Computerworld . Firefox 3.0.13 fixes two bugs that were disclosed last week by Dan Kamin... More >
According to boston.com , Daniel Goncalves is accused of hacking into an online account of one of the owners of the P2P.com domain nam e and changing ownership to himself. He then allegedly resold... More >
PGMag.com reports that Apple has confirmed it has released a patch for the iPhone SMS vulnerability discovered by researcher Charlie Miller . The flaw could allow an attacker to remotely install ... More >
Malfunctioning ATMs in Las Vegas could be infected with malware. According to PCWorld , the Secret Service is looking into ATMs at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino that are debiting peopl... More >
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