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Plenty of credit card fraud and identity theft
A survey of 1000 commuters in London has found that a tidal wave of credit card fraud and Identity theft is sweeping the UK as 44 % of people said they have suffered from …
Netgear ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall
Netgear announced the ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall (SRX5308), the first business firewall to provide in excess of 1 Gbps performance for under $500, which …
Organizations resist automated IT security processes
Organizations are investing to improve their security processes, but very few have automated their compliance procedures. This is one of the findings of a research report by …
Week in review: Facebook credentials for sale, Fake AV issues and rising security threats
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and podcasts: OWASP releases list of top 10 web application risks OWASP has released an …
VLC media player 1.0.6 fixes several vulnerabilities
The VLC development team introduced a new version of its ‘Goldeneye’ branch. This release bridges the gap between version 1.0.5 and the upcoming 1.1.0 VLC release. …
SplashID for iPhone introduces finger pattern login
SplashID 5.3 includes a unique new pattern-based option for accessing a user’s secure database of passwords, web logins, account numbers, PINs, and other sensitive …
Survey: 71% of companies monitor employee social media use
Over seventy percent of corporations have visibility into employee use of social media, according to a recent survey from nCircle. The online survey of 257 security …
Beware of fake emails from Twitter Support
As evidenced by the tweets on their official Safety account, Twitter is warning their users not to open emails purportedly coming from Twitter Support (support@twitter.com) …
Portable PHP password hashing framework
phpass is a portable public domain password hashing framework for use in PHP applications. It is meant to work with PHP 3 and above, and it has actually been tested with at …
Metasploit Express: Easy-to-use penetration testing
Rapid7 introduced Metasploit Express, a comprehensive penetration testing solution built on the open source Metasploit Framework. Metasploit Express is designed specifically …
TinyIDS: Distributed intrusion detection system
TinyIDS is a distributed Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for Unix systems. It is based on the client/server architecture and has been developed with security in mind. The …
Rogue software details: Vistop
Vistop is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what folders and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Folders …