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Hector Xavier Monsegur (aka “Sabu”), the infamous hacker and leader of the Lulzsec hacktivist group, has directed his associates to attack and compromise the …

The nonprofit Linux Foundation has announced the Core Infrastructure Initiative, a multi-million dollar project aimed to fund open source projects critical for the global …

A new report by McAfee sheds light on the underground world of online gambling. It identifies the proliferation of online casinos, an industry set to grow nearly 30% over the …

Weight loss spam is once again being massively spewed out from compromised Twitter accounts, but the question on everyone’s mind is how the accounts got commandeered by …

NetSupport is an application that allows corporations to remotely manage and connect to PCs and servers from a central location, to provide desktop support. I wrote a script …

Over the last year, Symantec researchers have been following and warning about exceptionally effective and sophisticated malware delivery / phishing campaigns that have been …

For the first time ever, Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected an active SMS Trojan in the United States. The malware in question is an SMS-sending Android Trojan dubbed …

While the network time protocol (NTP) DrDoS threats that became prevalent in early 2014 have been contained, new distributed reflected denial of service threats will lead to …

During 2013, Distil Networks fingerprinted and catalogued 2.2 billion bad bots, or 31 percent of the bad bots that exist in Distil’s database of 7-billion bad bots. Bad …

Update with comment from Amazon available below. An investigation spurred by one of the customers of their security product has lead researchers of security company Bkav to an …

Iowa State University has revealed yesterday that five of its departmental servers on campus have been hacked, and that Social Security numbers of nearly 30,000 of its past …

As more and more of our daily life happens online, the issue of online privacy should be of prime importance to each of us. Unfortunately, it’s not. Most users are not …