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SecurityTubeCon is the first hacker conference to be held completely online, 6-8 November, 2009. The event is aimed at democratizing hacker conferences by allowing any …

EU Agency ENISA presents the first pan European Good Practice Guide on Network Security Information Exchange (NSIE). The main aim of this guide is to assist Member States and …

Well, it seems that we are so used to scares regarding viruses and other assorted malware, that the actual information doesn’t even have to be true anymore but can still …

Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a …

Ten industry leaders — Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems — announced they will support the first pilot programs designed …

Symantec announced Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010, with a new model of security, codenamed Quorum, to attain detection of new malware beyond …

Mozilla released Firefox 3.5.3 that fixes several security issues. Crashes with evidence of memory corruption Mozilla developers and community members identified and fixed …

The next edition of Nullcon is taking plance in Goa, India, in February 2010. The conference will run on the following two serial tracks: 1. Gurukul Track – 1 hr …

David Maynor, over at Errata Security’s blog explains how he got fooled by a spambot. Using their TwiGUARD analysis tool, he discovered a profile that to him seemed …

PandaLabs has issued a ranking of the most insidious malware threats that have surfaced in the past 20 years. The following threats have been selected for the notoriety they …

Microsoft released a security update that resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the JScript scripting engine that could allow remote code execution if a user opened a …

fwknop stands for the “FireWall KNock OPerator”, and implements an authorization scheme called Single Packet Authorization (SPA). This method of authorization is …