App that revealed most common iPhone passcodes booted from App Store
Following the publication of the statistics concerning the most common iPhone passcodes that application developer Daniel Amitay has shared on Tuesday, Apple’s …
Huge decline of Autorun-abusing malware
Infections with malware that abuses the Windows Autorun feature by automatically enabling AutoPlay have been declining since February, says Microsoft, and credits the security …
Microsoft investigates emerging Internet phone scam
An Internet scam that targets English-language markets and costs victims on average $875, according to Microsoft. The scam works by criminals posing as computer security …
Risk management under pressure
Has the financial services industry reached a comfort zone, placing it in jeopardy of another crisis? Are today’s risk management practices and reporting in tune with …
Protect yourself while surfing the mobile web
Lookout Mobile Security introduced Safe Browsing to protect against online threats when surfing the Web from a mobile device. Safe Browsing users can feel confident that they …
F-Secure Mobile Security 7 protects smartphones and tablets
The mobile world is changing fast. Smartphones and tablet computers are at the cutting edge of technological sophistication and defining what is cool to a new generation of …
Man convicted for using DDoS attacks in extortion scheme
A German man has been convicted to a 34-month prison sentence and has been ordered to pay some 350,000 Euros to the companies he blackmailed by threatening to take down their …
Citigroup data theft the result of a common vulnerability
If the information the NYT has received about the Citigroup breach is correct, and the intrusion was made possible by the exploitation of a vulnerability so frequent and …
Adobe Shockwave player multiple vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Shockwave Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system, according to Secunia. 1. …
LulzSec DDoS rampage downs game servers and sites
Tuesday has been another busy day for the LulzSec bunch, and has witnessed DDoS attacks against a number of targets. It all started with the downing of the website of the …
Malware activity hitting peaks of 10 million pieces per day
Virus and malware activity increased during the month of May, sporadically hitting peaks of more than 10 million pieces per day, according to AppRiver. Major news events, once …
Microsoft patches Office Mac 2008 and 2011
Microsoft released update 12.3.0 for Office Mac 2008 and update 14.1.2 for Office Mac 2011. Both updates contains several changes that improve security, stability, and …