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FBI arrests six for DNS hijacking scam worth $14 million
Charges against six Estonian nationals and one Russian national for engaging in a massive and sophisticated Internet fraud scheme that infected with malware more than four …
Oracle Solaris 11: The first cloud OS
Oracle today released Solaris 11, the first Cloud OS. Oracle Solaris 11 is designed to meet the security, performance and scalability requirements of cloud-based deployments …
Bitdefender prevents scams on Twitter
Bitdefender is adding a tool to its arsenal to prevent scams on Twitter. Safego has emerged successful from beta testing by Twitter users and will be incorporated into …
New fuzzing platform from Codenomicon
Codenomicon released Defensics X, the latest version of their security and robustness testing software. The update introduces better coverage through infinite test case …
The 12 scams of Christmas
‘Tis the season for consumers to spend more time online – shopping for gifts, looking for great holiday deals on new digital gadgets, e-planning family …
Worldwide security service spending to reach $35.1 billion
Worldwide security services spending is on pace to reach $35.1 billion in 2011, up from $31.1 billion in 2010, according to Gartner. The market is forecast to total $38.3 …
Global phishing trends and domain name use
A new survey by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reveals that phishing attacks perpetrated against Chinese e-commerce and banking sites soared by 44 percent in the first …
Adobe patches Shockwave Player
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.1.629 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. These vulnerabilities …
First military-secured 3G and 4G core network
Tecore Networks introduced the 4G evolution of its military-secured iCore platform, making it the world’s first complete, multi-technology mobile network. By …
Angry Birds know where you live
75% of the public may be giving away their physical location when downloading smartphone applications, according to AdaptiveMobile. 69% of smartphone users are adamant that …
Protection against Duqu malware
A new vulnerability in Windows has been recently identified and is already exploited in the wild. For now, only a handful of targeted attacks have been found. The …
Firefox 8.0 brings security and stability fixes
Mozilla released Firefox 8.0 that fixes several security and stability issues. Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default, as if add-on management …
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