Attack against Lockheed Martin result of previous RSA breach?
Lockheed Martin, one of United States’ largest military contractors, has experienced an attack against its computer networks, and speculations abound on whether the …
Fake YouTube notifications doing rounds
YouTube users are targeted with notifications supposedly sent by YouTube administrators and containing links to Canadian pharmacy sites, warns BitDefender. With “YouTube …
Week in review: LinkedIn, Hotmail security flaws, Chrome apps with dangerous permissions and the evolution of Mac fake AV
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news: 1.5 billion smart credentials to ship The increasing use of smart cards and biometric capture has …
Apps with dangerous permissions pulled from Chrome Web Store
Do you trust Google to review and ban potentially malicious applications from its online stores? The Android Market has already been found offering “trojanized” …
Code in the Cloud: Programming Google AppEngine
Cloud applications are the next big shift in application development: instead of building single-user applications to run on a personal computer, new applications are being …
Cloud identity tools for LinkedIn, Twitter and Microsoft Live
Ping Identity released Cloud Identity Connectors for LinkedIn, Twitter, and Microsoft Live, enabling the enterprise to rely on cloud service providers and social networking …
SCADA SIEM for critical infrastructure protection
AlienVault released its ICS SIEM, a family of purpose-built appliances which provide a platform for security and compliance management across industrial process control …
Fake Epsilon breach warning tricks users
Among the most annoying things you can find online are pages that pretend to offer or try to push a service in order to make money by simply referring the user to another …
35 million Google Profiles collected into private database
If you are one of those individuals that made their own Google Profile, chances are that you knew and agreed to the fact that the information you included in it will be …
The resurrection of the Mariposa botnet
When the news that the Spanish police arrested the three individuals suspected of running the Mariposa botnet was made public back in March 2010, it was generally thought that …
New Mac Defender variant doesn’t need your admin password
There is a new variant of the Mac Defender rogue AV out there, and this one doesn’t require users to enter the administrator password in order to install the program, …
Spam not the problem it once was
Email spam is still an everyday occurrence, but not the nuisance it once was, according to Avira. Nearly half of all end-users are satisfied with the anti-spam filters on …