Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 released
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 (WVS) echoes years of counter-hacking experience through its new ability to lock hackers out by integrating scan results into …
Forensic toolkit with malware analysis technology
AccessData released Forensic Toolkit 4 (FTK) that gives organizations affordable access to more advanced incident response and remote investigative capabilities. Using FTK, …
Week in review: Cheap cellphone tracking, Apple’s Gatekeeper, and Google secretly bypasses Safari’s “no tracking” settings
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Privacy pitfalls of online dating It used to be that you were pretty much anonymous …
Hackers can find you by tracking your cellphone
Finding out people’s approximate whereabouts by tracing their cellphone signal is something that service providers can easily do, as cellular networks track its …
Cutwail botnet intensifies spam spewing
The old Cutwail botnet is still alive and spamming from its 1,5 million bots, and has lately been spotted using malicious HTML attachments. The spam emails vary from fake …
Secret ad code allows Google to bypass Safari’s “no tracking” settings
Once again, Google has been caught doing something that it shouldn’t be doing: using code in their ads to intentionally bypass the privacy settings of Safari users in …
How mobile malware is maturing
Mobile malware has reached a new stage of maturation, according to Juniper Networks. Top findings from Juniper’s 2011 Mobile Threats Report are evidence of accelerating …
Ransomware impersonates the Italian police
Ransomware targeting Italian-speaking users is being served from compromised websites via malicious JavaScript code, warns Total Defense’s Rossano Ferraris. The users …
Fake Facebook notification delivers keylogger
Fake Facebook notifications about changes in users’ account information have been hitting inboxes and delivering malware to unwary users, warn BarracudaLabs researchers. …
New powerful bot spreads by email
PandaLabs reported the presence of a powerful new bot called Ainslot.L. This malware is designed to log user activities, download additional malware and take control of …
Analyze mobile apps for malware threats
Trend Micro announced Mobile App Reputation, a technology that can automatically identify, analyze and rate mobile applications for issues that could include malware, …
Cloudify cloud application platform
GigaSpaces Technologies announced Cloudify, a cloud application platform that enables organizations to easily on-board and manage any application, on any cloud, with zero code …
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