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Microsoft sues malvertisers

Microsoft announced it has filed 5 lawsuit against (so far unknown) individuals who were operating the “Soft Solutions,” “Direct Ad,” …

No honor among thieves: hacking Facebook accounts

PandaLabs reports that they found a site where you can pay $100 to have a Facebook account hacked. PandaLabs’ Technical Director, Luis Corrons, tested the …

Will the U.S. President have the authority to shut down the Internet?

Two important bills (773 and 778) have been introduced in the U.S. Senate while the whole nation is preoccupied with health care legislation. The Examiner reports that if …

Identity theft prevention quiz from ITAC

The Identity Theft Assistance Center (ITAC) has made available an identity theft prevention quiz, and has offered a 6 months identity monitoring service for free to the first …

Click fraud surge linked to “Bahama” botnet

Click Forensics announced it has identified an unusually large spike in click fraud traffic coming from a new botnet that appears to be eluding the filters of even the most …

New backbone solution to relieve strain of bandwidth-intensive applications

Alcatel-Lucent introduced a converged IP/Optical backbone network solution designed to relieve the strain on service providers’ core networks caused by the explosive …

Photos: BruCON conference, opening day

BruCON is a brand new security and hacker conference that is taking place right now in Brussels, Belgium. Help Net Security and (IN)SECURE Magazine are proud to be media …

Cell phone data acquisition, analysis & forensics tool

Susteen announced Secure View 2 with svProbe, a forensics solution which enables law enforcement and corporate security consultants to acquire, analyze and report cell phone …

Single sign-on to services and applications in the cloud

Wave Systems announced the launch of id.wave.com, the beta of an identity service that enables strong authentication and single sign-on to Web services and applications in the …

Snort 2.8.5 is now available

Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol …

Google acquires reCAPTCHA

In an entry on the official Google blog, Luis von Ahn, co-founder of reCAPTCHA, and Will Cathcart, Google Product Manager announced that: The acquisition is not about …

Jet-set’s “Facebook” hacked

Ever heard of ASmallWorld? Dubbed “Snobster” by critics, it is an exclusive invitation-only online social network service similar to Friendster. To quote their …

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