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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 90% of critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities are mitigated by …

Red Condor issued a warning of a new blended email threat that appears to be a security alert from eBay. The email message with the subject line “eBay Procedural Warning …

Ransomware is the dominating threat with nine of the detections in the malware top ten list resulting in either scareware or ransomware infesting the victim’s PC. …

The OSSEC team is pleased to announce the general availability of OSSEC version 2.4. There are lots of new features and bug fixes, but these are the main changes: Added daily …

The generic mechanism that spreads using removable devices – Trojan.AutorunInf.Gen – is the top e-threat for March with 13.40 percent of the total amount of global …

In order to reach high scores, social entertainment applications require users to gather a considerable number of friends and supporters to play the same game, leading to …

Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. The following bugs have been fixed: SNMPv3 Engine ID …

In this podcast, Cenzic’s Mandeep Khera talks about the latest trends in Web application security. According to their latest report, 80 percent of published …

The popularity of social networking services and changes in online user behavior are driving broader attack strategies, including complex blended threats, faster malware …

BraveSentry 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 …

How is privacy impacting Swiss banks? It’s time for a change according to Dr. David Costa, Professor at Robert Kennedy College who comments on Bloomberg TV.

Here is the security content related to QuickTime 7.6.6, available for download here. Playing maliciously crafted audio content may lead to an unexpected application …