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New wave of PDF Spam
After months of almost no activity, managed service providers MX Logic reported a small wave of PDF spam emerge again. PDF spam was an extremely popular tactic for spammers …
Remotely “murder” your stolen laptop
Alcatel-Lucent has developed a laptop security and management system – the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian – that remotely secures, monitors, manages and …
Virus writer arrested… for breaching coyright
Police in Kyoto have arrested three men, who are said to have been involved in a plot to infect users of the P2P file-sharing network Winny with a Trojan horse that displayed …
Best Buy sold virus-infected digital picture frames
A limited number of Insignia 10.4″ digital picture frames NS-DPF-10A were contaminated with a computer virus during the manufacturing process. Once informed, the company …
Social Engineering: Threats and Countermeasures
Over the years much has been written about how users are the weakest link in security, and there are surely not many people who would disagree. Despite this, companies often …
Biometric industry year in review
findBIOMETRICS published the most comprehensive review of what the Biometric Industry leaders think about this past year. What were the key events? What are the most pressing …
New Symbian worm uses social engineering
F-Secure malware experts been working on an interesting Symbian worm over the last few days. It affects S60 2nd Edition phones. The SymbOS/Beselo family of worms spread via …
New from Cisco – ASA 5580 Series Adaptive Security Appliances
Cisco announced the availability of the Cisco ASA 5580 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, the company’s highest-performing security appliance offering. The new Cisco …
Free anti spam PC software with 24/7 live support
Danish company BullGuard announced BullGuard Spamfilter, free software which includes 24/7 Live Support and integrates with all major email clients. The BullGuard Spamfilter …
Mobile security for UIQ devices
F-Secure announced the availability of its Mobile Security product for the UIQ platform. F-Secure and Sony Ericsson are partnering on supplying mobile security to Sony …
New Sophos Web security appliance
Sophos announced the latest version of its WS1000 web appliance, which brings together enterprise-grade policy and URL filtering with trusted real-time security filtering-all …
Sample drive-by pharming attack
Symantec’s Zulfikar Ramzan posted a blog entry on a drive-by pharming attack they came across: We recently saw instances of actual attackers attempting a basic version …
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