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A vulnerability was discovered in these three popular versions of AOL Instant Messaging software, AIM 6.1 (and 6.2 beta), AIM Pro and AIM Lite, which expose workstations …

Experts at IT security and control firm Sophos have reacted with bewilderment at news that a jailed virus writer has been offered a job by one of the companies he succeeded in …

This giveaway is made possible by the fine folks at Addison-Wesley Professional and Cisco Press. We are giving away one copy of each of these books: To try your luck send an …

Web application security expert Shreeraj Shah published three new security tools that should help in assessment and audit of Web 2.0 applications. wsScanner wsScanner is a …

Insight Consulting, the independent security consultancy of Siemens Enterprise Communications, today announced the findings and availability of new research on the attitudes …

Ruby on Rails is a free web application framework that aims to increase the speed and ease with which database-driven web sites can be created and offers skeleton code …

Richard Menta made a short video in which he shows how an iPod touch can be used to discover available wireless networks nearby. More about this at his website.

Check Point recently unveiled a public beta of the new ZoneAlarm ForceField, the first virtualised, on-demand browser security solution.  It works by enabling …

HID Global announced the launch of the idBank System, a revolutionary vehicle for the delivery of virtual secure identity credentials. The idBank System enables the delivery …

Check Point today unveiled a public beta of the new ZoneAlarm ForceField, the first virtualised, on-demand browser security solution.   ZoneAlarm ForceField Features and …

Sophos writes that Chinese court has sentenced four men to jail for virus writing. The men were found to have been behind the Fujacks worm (also known as Worm.Whboy) which …

From a blog post on xs-sniper.com: “We’ve posted a snippet of some of the research we’ve done on Cross Application Scripting and URI exploitation. It’s …