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The cloudy world of passwords
With the growth of social networking, online media consumption and cloud computing, every day millions of people log in to a variety of different sites using a username and …
Barclays under strong phishing shower
A highly productive phishing scam, with more than 180 messages sent in three minutes, hits a big chunk of the online segment of Barclays members Various people are wondering …
Rogue software details: DoubleVaccine
DoubleVaccine is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Files …
Understanding social engineering
At the heart of many of the malicious ploys that we see online is one underlying concept: social engineering. Deceptive social engineering tactics are interwoven throughout …
1 in 4 kids have tried hacking
Despite 78% agreeing that it is wrong, 1 in 4 of UK’s children have tried their hand at hacking into others’ Facebook accounts mostly by surreptitiously using the …
Rogue software details: Antivirus 7
Antivirus 7 is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files to look for below. Known system changes: Files c:\Desktop\Antivirus7.lnk …
Enterprise 2.0 privacy concerns in Europe
Transparent access to people and information is Enterprise 2.0’s great promise. It’s tempered, however, by a privacy risk that is especially sensitive in the …
Cloud-based rapid disaster recovery
Unitrends unveiled its Vault2Cloud disaster recovery service, monitored and managed through a simple, easy-to-use Web 2.0-based user interface. Vault2Cloud solves many of the …
Video: Nessus scan through a meterpreter session
Run a Nessus scan through a compromised host:
New release of RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite
With more than 70 new features for scanning, workflow, reporting, and global content processing, version 8.0 of the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite is engineered to allow …
Virtual PC Hypervisor vulnerability remains unpatched
Core Security issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that could affect large numbers of organizations and consumers using Microsoft’s Virtual PC virtualization …
FBI: Online fraud loss was $559 million in 2009
Online crime complaints increased substantially once again last year, according to a report about fraudulent activity on the Internet from the Internet Crime Complaint Center …