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Blue Coat Systems announced that their PacketShaper appliances can now deliver instant awareness of Web applications and content. The appliances provide intelligent control …

A Romanian hacker known as ‘TinKode’ has claimed to have broken into the main British Royal Navy website, www.royalnavy.mod.uk, and posted sensitive information …

Venafi invited the 150-plus survey participants from the world’s largest companies to give their views on the problem of downtime caused by increasing encryption …

ATC-NY released Mac Marshal 2.0 which automates the forensics process for a cyber investigator. It scans a Macintosh disk, automatically detects and displays Macintosh and …

Firesheep is the Firefox extension that makes it easier to steal logins and take over social media and email accounts after users log in from a WiFi hotspot or even their own …

On November 3, 2010, Dorin Codreanu and Lilian Adam were arrested in Portage, Wisconsin by FBI agents. Codreanu and Adam have been fugitives since September 30 when FBI agents …

Katana is a portable multi-boot security suite which brings together all of the best security distributions to run from one USB drive. Katana includes distributions which …

A culture of complacency hampers information security efforts, and as a result of lax practices and oversight, is leaving sensitive corporate data vulnerable to tampering and …

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews, articles and reviews: Facebook discovers and “punishes” UID-selling …

A new variant of the Boonana malware has been discovered by ESET. The new variant, trojan.osx.boonana.b, behaves in a very similar manner to the original malware, and is …

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.85.3 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.1.95.1 …