During the last couple of hours, visitors of popular and high trafficked web sites such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Gamespot, WorldOfWarcraft, Mashable, Chow.com, ITpro.co.uk, AndroidCommunity;...

When AV attacks IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers and PCs running McAfee VirusScan attacked core system files, in some cases causing the machines to display...

Blue grass county hit by Trojan-fueled cybercrime A gang of cybercrooks has made off with $415,000 from the coffers of Bullitt County, Kentucky following the conclusion of an elaborate phishing scam,...

Part twenty two of the diverse portfolio of fake security software series will summarize the typosquatted scareware serving domains currently in circulation, pushed through the usual distribution...

Ay, Caramba! Hackers have invaded the Best Buy website to plant exploit code targeted at South and central American surfers....

SpywareBlaster prevents the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, dialers, browser hijackers, and other potentially unwanted programs. It can also block spyware/tracking cookies in IE,...

Two papers for smaller businesses Typically, vendor white papers are written with the ITDM or senior ITDM at a large company, in mind. [ITDM is industry jargon for "IT decision maker", since you ask.]...

Drive-by download attack hits multiple hosts Hackers are running a mass compromise against sites running vulnerable ColdFusion application server installations....

Read this in depth overview of RFID technology and capabilities, major standards and ways to improve convenience, accuracy, safety and security....

Making a hashtag of Web 2.0 security The Month Of Twitter Bugs has begun with the publication of a flaw in a URL shortening service often used in conjunction with the micro-blogging service.Case...

SpyPhone 3GS If you own an iPhone, security researcher Charlie Miller can take control of it, and short of turning off the device, it appears there isn't much you can do to stop him. Not until Apple...

Good essay -- "The Staggering Cost of Playing it 'Safe'" -- about the political motivations for terrorist security policy. Senator Barbara Boxer has led an effort to at least put together a public...

Researcher aims to tweet Month of Bugs...

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen opened up a can of worms when he made the case for unmasking passwords in his blog. I chimed in that I agreed. Almost 165 comments on my blog (and several articles,...

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BitDefender released the top ten e-threats for the month of June. Five of the ten worst e-threats are Trojans, making this the best represented e-threat category. In tenth position is a generic...

'Mac users have no antibodies' AVG bosses aren't saying much, but there's new evidence the anti-virus maker is seriously considering building an application for the Mac....

European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) Quarterly Review is a publication that is distributed to stakeholders and other interested readers every three months. Vol. 5 - No. 2 ...

Pesky algorithm not invulnerable Cryptographic researchers have uncovered a chink in the armour of the widely used AES algorithm....