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There’s been an increase in targeted and combined email-based threats, a new twist in phishing attacks, and an escalation in social engineering scams through popular …

Joomla 1.7.0. This is a security release. This is also the first release made within the new six-month release cycle that started with the delivery of Joomla 1.6 in January …

(ISC)2 released of the “Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CSSLP“, a textbook that serves as the only official guide to the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle …

It’s been 25 years since the first PC virus (Brain A) hit the net, and what was once an annoyance has become a sophisticated tool for crime and espionage. Computer …

An especially virulent Trojan variant with DDoS capabilities has been spotted masquerading as a regular Java update and is being served both from legitimate and malicious …

Cyber thieves, hacktivists, pranksters, nation-states, and malicious coders for hire all pose serious threats to the security of both government and private sector networks. A …

24-year-old Aaron Swartz, renowned programmer and Internet activist, stands accused of having stolen over 4 million digital documents from MIT’s JSTOR archive with the …

Apple released Mac OS X Lion (v10.7), which takes some of the best ideas from iPad and brings them back to the Mac. Security-wise, Lion brings an improvement to Address space …

Mobile devices have become as common as the stethoscope in patient’s rooms. Physicians routinely review patients’ electronic health records (EHR), read test …

Google has begun notifying its users that a particular piece of malware is installed on their computers by showing a big yellow notification above their search results (click …

Fourteen individuals were arrested on Monday by FBI agents on charges related to their alleged involvement in a cyber attack on PayPal’s website as part of an action …

Could it be that 2011 is the year when the long-standing predictions about the rise of mobile malware come true? Symantec’s Irfan Asrar thinks that there are definite …