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In densely populated urban areas WiFi routers form a tightly interconnected proximity network that can be exploited as a substrate for the spreading of malware able to launch …

Researcher Aviv Raff found out that Mozilla Firefox allows spoofing the information presented in the basic authentication dialog box. This can allow an attacker to conduct …

Secunia reported that researcher Evgeny Legerov has found a vulnerability in RealPlayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system. The …

A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed today in Detroit charging 11 persons in a wide-ranging international fraud scheme involving the illegal use of bulk commercial …

The PHP development team announced the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.8. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly …

Microsoft announced their plan to release two Windows security updates on Tuesday January 8 as part of the regular software patch cycle. One of the bulletins is rated critical …

Fortinet Global Security Research Team discovered a malicious Facebook Widget actively spreading on the social networking site which ultimately prompts users to install the …

Sourcefire 3D System’s 3D3800 Sensor has received Network Intrusion Prevention System certification from ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business. …

Trojans were responsible for 25.83% of infections recorded by ActiveScan, the online scanner from Panda Security, during 2007. This type of malicious code accounted for 77.40% …

David Pogue’s timely new book “Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual” offers honest, straightforward, and fun-to-read instructions on all things Leopard, …

Sophos is warning workers returning from the New Year holidays to be wary of internet attacks taking advantage of the celebrations. New versions of the Dorf worm (W32/Dorf-AE, …

ElcomSoft has added support for Oracle and UNIX passwords to Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery v. 2.10. The latest version of ElcomSoft’s Windows password recovery …