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Facebook closing on March 15th hoax spreads like wildfire
More than one million Facebook users are believed to have fallen for a hoax claiming that the popular website will close its doors on March 15th. A bogus news story, published …
Fwsnort: Application layer IDS/IPS with iptables
Fwsnort parses the rules files included in the Snort intrusion detection system and builds an equivalent iptables ruleset for as many rules as possible. Fwsnort utilizes the …
Spam moving to social networks and mobile
Following the recent news on global spam levels falling, Jamie Tomasello, Abuse Operations Manager at Cloudmark, outlines her thoughts on why spammers are moving from email to …
Protect USB devices against malicious content
Trend Micro announced the latest version of its USB Security product, designed to protect USB storage devices against malicious content in files that are often transferred by …
Deploy, maintain and manage data security protection
WinMagic released SecureDoc 5, the full-disk encryption solution that allows organizations to integrate data protection with existing security policies to protect sensitive …
Week in review: Phishing, Kneber botnet and Microsoft vulnerabilities
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: Adobe PDF format riddled with exploitable features Adobe’s PDF …
Trend Micro protects Android devices
Trend Micro announced Mobile Security which protects digital files and secures banking transactions on Android devices by identifying and stopping online threats. Key Features …
My first status scam spreads virally on Facebook
Sophos is warning Facebook users about the latest survey scam which is spreading virally across the social network. Messages claiming to share the users’ first ever …
New line of Samsung DIY video security and surveillance systems
Samsung announced a new line of security products for home and SMB use. Available in 4-, 8-, or 16-Channels, the systems include a DVR with storage capacities ranging from 500 …
Microsoft to patch three vulnerabilities in Windows
Next week’s January’s security bulletins will contain two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Windows. As usual, the bulletin release is scheduled for …
Mac OS X 10.6.6 updates security and introduces App Store
Apple today released Mac OS X 10.6.6 which which increases the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. What’s also very important in this release is the …
MediaWiki 1.16.1 fixes clickjacking issue
MediaWiki released version 1.16.1 which is a security and maintenance release. Wikipedia user PleaseStand pointed out that MediaWiki has no protection against …
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