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Intellectual Property and Open Source is for anyone who wants to understand how the law views intellectual property rights in code and other content. As an attorney and a …

PandaLabs has noted an increase in cyber-crooks’ use of malware under the guise of fake antivirus products to defraud users. These applications, classified as adware by …

Future Systems Solutions announced Casper 5.0 Tech Edition, a new version of its hard disk backup and disk upgrade utility. Designed especially for computer technicians, …

Stonesoft introduced the StoneGate Virtual IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) to protect internal networks from malicious traffic. The release of this solution brings the …

In time to help financial services companies meet exceedingly rigid “Red Flag Rules” for protection against data loss, Utimaco unveiled SafeGuard PortProtector …

Unlike large enterprise organizations, small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) face multiple security threats with often limited resources to protect assets, data and customer …

Consumer interest in mobile banking and payments services offered by their financial institution has increased significantly in the past two years, according to new findings …

Ping Identity released PingFederate 5.2, the most complete Internet single sign-on software solution for SaaS users and SaaS vendors. It incorporates key technologies from …

TraceSecurity revealed today its five-year statistics on social engineering and penetration testing. The statistics show that 95% of U.S. financial institutions’ …

Google announced a new logs retention policy. They pledge to anonymize IP addresses on their server logs after 9 months. That’s a significant shortening of their …

While my research is primarily concerned with drive-by-download attacks, I thought I try to summarize other web-based client-side attacks that are out there, many of which are …

The APWG announced today that its first quarter survey reveals a near doubling of the number of crimeware-spreading URLs at the end of the period, up from the previous record …