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Repair Management Services of Blackburn, the trade association representing car repair companies, has lost a laptop containing the personal details of 37,000 people and …

Adium 1.3.6 is now available. It includes an updated version of libpurple which fixes the vulnerability revealed earlier this week which has the potential to allow another …

Security researcher Shreeraj Shah released the beta version of AppPrint. This tool scans the IP range, IP or host for Web and Application servers. It scans port 80 for a …

Washington DC will be hosting the 2009 OWASP Application Security Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on November 10-13th, 2009. AppSec DC 2009 will …

ReallyWho brings the public records identity verification technology used by financial institutions to social media websites. “We are protecting Web 2.0 identities with …

Norton Safe Web, Symantec’s Web site ratings and reputation service, released the results of their analysis of sites with security risks and compilied the …

The video below is a demonstration of an attack exploiting a vulnerability in Facebook. In a nutshell, a Facebook user’s personal is stolen. The only thing he does is …

Sophos is warning Twitter users to be wary of new followers posting sleazy images and inviting them to connect on MSN. Spammers have created scores of bogus profiles and …

Come this September, new Macs will ship with the Snow Leopard operating system. Apple says this version of OS X is “faster, more reliable, and easier to use,” and …

New regulations requiring health care providers, health plans, and other entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to notify …

Sometimes people take it for granted that once they login into Facebook, they don’t have to worry about security threats, but as Rik Ferguson (a researcher for Trend …

The Health Information Trust Alliance announced that the Common Security Framework, the first IT security framework developed specifically for healthcare information, is now …