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A rather poorly executed but extensive spam campaign impersonating the US Federal Reserve is currently targeting online banking users. The email, using graphics hosted by the …

The US Department of Justice and the FBI, along with international law enforcement partners, announced the indictment of two individuals from Latvia and the seizure of more …

“Your federal tax payment was rejected”. We imagine that the sight of these words would make even the most security-aware individuals click on anything in sight as …

A 19-year-old man has been charged with offences under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central …

Openwall released an updated version of John the Ripper, a password security auditing tool and open source project, providing the community with improvements in the …

As data protection mandates become stricter and high profile instances of data loss proliferate in the media, a new survey by DigitalPersona found that 67 percent of …

Tenable Network Security announced SecurityCenter 4.2, a solution for enterprise-grade information protection and compliance. SecurityCenter 4.2 makes it faster and easier for …

Wireshark, the free and open source packet analyzer, lets users capture, examine, and reassemble packets in order to troubleshoot their network problems. But once the packets …

Half of businesses have suffered at least one business critical IT failure as a result of installing a bad software patch, according to GFI Software. The research also …

Comodo announced the Beta release of its SSL Analyzer, a free web site scanning tool which provides an instant summary of web server security levels. After typing a domain …

A report unearths how “trusted malware” is continuing to grow at an alarming rate. In Q2, AVG has seen an increase in the number of stolen digital certificates …

Evolving requirements for leveraging IT information have led to the emergence of IT data management (ITDM) as a major enterprise initiative, according to LogLogic. They also …