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Roger Thompson, the chief technology officer at anti-virus vendor AVG Technologies, says Facebook users can expect attacks to continue , and possibly become even more dangerous, reports Computerwor... More >
Symantec has announced Norton Everywhere, a new approach that delivers security across all Internet-enabled devices, according to PCWorld.com . One component of Norton Everywhere is Norton DNS, w... More >
Computerworld reports that five people have been indicted for a 2007 cyber theft in which spyware was used to steal nearly $450,000 from the bank accounts of the city of Carson, Calif. John... More >
Mozilla's Aza Raskin has described a unique phishing attack that Firefox engineers will need to correct. InformationWeek reports that Raskin has dubbed the attack "tabnapping" because malic... More >
The hits keep coming for Lifelock. Computerworld reports that the Phoenix New Times posted a police report that contained a redacted Social Security number of Lifelock employee Tamika Jones , as ... More >
A Nebraska man who pled guilty to charges related to a January 2008 attack on websites of the Church of Scientology has been sentenced to a year in prison , according to an Associated Press " artic... More >
Two years after fixing a security bug in the Windows version of its Safari browser, Apple has yet to fix it for Mac users, much to the chagrin of researcher Nitesh Dhanjani. Dhanjani first br... More >
Although it does not appear to be malicious, security experts are warning of a click-jacking worm spreading via Facebook that attempts to trick users into posting it on their status updates. ... More >
VeriSign is warning that botnets could become more widespread as the services become easier and cheaper to hire. According to V3.co.uk , VeriSign's iDefence branch says that criminals are adv... More >
Facebook is fighting off yet another scam, which uses a sex-oriented video as bait . According to Websense, the scam is propagated through Facebook messages boasting "Distracting Beach Babes"... More >
The Microsoft Malware Prevention Center reports that this month's Malicious Software Removal Tool has eradicated a new mutation of the Alureon rootkit from over 360,000 Windows PCs since its May 11... More >
Two companies that are the subject of click fraud lawsuits filed by Microsoft are maintaining their innocence , Computerworld reports. As we reported yesterday , Microsoft claims the companies use... More >
According to Computerworld , Microsoft has filed two lawsuits against people it claims are using a new kind of click fraud that it has dubbed "click laundering." In one suit, Microsoft clai... More >
Microsoft has revamped Windows Live Hotmail to boost security. According to Computerworld , Microsoft is adding what Walter Harp, Hotmail's director of product management, calls "proofs" to... More >
Heartland Payment Systems has reached a settlement with MasterCard Inc ., agreeing to pay up to $41.4 million in data security breach claims to issuers of the card. Reuters reports that accor... More >
RSA has announced its Man-in-the-Browser Solutions package , which, according to V3.co.uk , offers four services designed to beat man-in-the-middle attacks: transaction monitoring; adaptive authent... More >
Microsoft is warning users of a bug in the Canonical Display Driver of 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. According to Computerworld , the vulnerability, which could b... More >
M.J. Keith, a senior security analyst with security firm Alert Logic, has discovered a Facebook Web programming flaw that could allow hackers to alter profile pages or make restricted information p... More >
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently concluded an experiment known as Panopticlick, which found that more than 80 percent of Web browsers have unique, trackable configuration signatures , rep... More >
A laptop belonging to a Department of Veterans Affairs contractor has been stolen. According to InformationWeek , the unencrypted laptop, which was stolen on April 22, contained the Social Securit... More >
According to Kaspersky Lab's latest Internet security report, Facebook phishing attacks surged 5.7 percent in the first three months of 2010, placing it fourth on the list of most-targeted websites... More >
According to Computerworld , former security guard Jesse William McGraw has pleaded guilty to to two counts of transmitting malicious code for hacking into his employer's computers while working t... More >
Security experts are telling users to beware of a Twitter phishing scam designed to collect personal data using an offer of a new iPhone 4G as bait, according to V3.co.uk . In a blog post ... More >
Ukrainian national Sergey Valeryevich Storchark has been arrested in India for his alleged role in the hacking of nine U.S. retailers and selling tens of millions of credit card numbers, reports C... More >
According to Computerworld , Facebook has rolled out two new security features designed to protect users from phishers and other online scammers. One of the new features available to Facebo... More >
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard council has issued new requirements designed to improve security on retail point-of-sale card readers, unattended kiosks and payment terminals, accor... More >
Mozilla is lending a hand to rival browsers, including Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Opera, with a tool that lets users determine whether important add-ons may be vulnerable to attack. ... More >
TG Daily reports that a number of websites powered by the WordPress platform have been the target of hackers. Sites hosted by various providers, including DreamHost, GoDaddy, Bluehost and Media Te... More >
Computerworld reports that Thomas James Frederick Smith is set to plead guilty before a federal judge in Dallas for creating a 22,000-node botnet and then training it on two ISPs to show a prospec... More >
According to InformationWeek , phishers targeted the the Facebook account of company board member Jim Breyer in an effort to capture information from recipients. The message, which was sent... More >
Symantec says that online criminals have been targeting Apple gift card holders with a phishing scam. According to eSecurity Planet , crooks set up a phishing site using a typosquatted URL ... More >
TechCrunch reports that Web security consultant George Deglin has uncovered an exploit that would allow a malicious site to immediately collect a Facebook user’s information with no action require... More >
According to quarterly financial results released by Heartland, the card payment processor has accumulated $139.4 million in breach-related expenses , Computerworld reports. The amount incl... More >
Researchers at Matousec.com have published an attack tactic that bypasses the security protections of most current antivirus software. According to Computerworld , Matousec calls the techniqu... More >
A new worm set its sights on the Yahoo Messenger community and infected an unknown number of users after tricking them into clicking on a link disguised as "foto" or "fotos" from someone in their co... More >
A federal court in Texas has given preliminary approval to a $4 million settlement of a consumer class-action lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems, according to Computerworld . Under t... More >
Microsoft has just two critical security bulletins planned for this month's Patch Tuesday, according to eWEEK . Computerworld reports that the first patch will fix vulnerabilities in Windows 200... More >
A missing flash drive from Our Lady of Peace, a psychiatric hospital in Louisville, Ky., has put more that 24,000 patients' personal information at risk . According to eSecurity Planet , the drive ... More >
Core Labs researcher Nicolas Economou has discovered that Microsoft quietly patched three vulnerabilities last month, two of them involving enterprise mission-critical Exchange mail servers, report... More >
Security researcher Barnaby Jack plans to disclose a new ATM rootkit at this year's Black Hat conference, according to PCWorld.com . In a post on the Black Hat website , Jack says: I will demonst... More >
The Indian government has banned local companies from buying Chinese mobile networking hardware over concerns of a plague of embedded malware, V3.co.uk reports. India believes that Chinese intell... More >
The results of Virus Bulletin's anti-spam tests are in and 18 of the 21 products tested passed and were able to claim certification. According to V3.co.uk , 17 of the 20 products tested wer... More >
Foxit Software has updated its PDF viewer to address an attack demonstrated by Belgian researcher Didier Stevens that does not require an underlying vulnerability. Computerworld reports tha... More >
According to V3.co.uk , Google is now offering a new tool that allows administrators to remotely reset cookies to ensure that sensitive data cannot be accessed on lost or stolen devices. In... More >
Webroot has added a vulnerability-scanning tool to its Web Security Service. V3.co.uk says the tool is designed to help identify and protect against threats, vulnerabilities and missing pat... More >
Security vendor AVG has discovered that three websites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to infect visitors with malicious software, reports Computerworld . ... More >
According to a Consumer Reports survey, a little more than half of social network users are post risky information. TG Daily reports that the survey shows that 52 percents of users post thei... More >
Government representatives and business leaders will meet in Texas on Tuesday for a three-day EastWest Institute (EWI) Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit . The goal of the summit, according to V3.co.uk... More >
Microsoft has issued an interim workaround for a zero-day vulnerability affecting SharePoint servers . According to Computerworld , the workaround disables access to SharePoint's help system... More >
According to Ars Technica , a federal jury has found David Kernell, the college student accused of hacking into Sarah Palin's e-mail account in 2008 , guilty of obstruction of justice, a felony, a... More >
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