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Malware sent via email increased by 400% in the last week of March 2011, Commtouch reported today. The significant increase was detected two weeks after the takedown of the …

A global survey of more than 1,240 IT decision makers at large enterprises – 72% of which have more than 1,000 employees – found that one third (33%) of …

Secunia announced enhancements to the award-winning Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager (VIM). The Secunia VIM is compliant with the vulnerability database requirements …

Ransomware is slowly becoming quite a problem, and the latest one spotted by F-Secure tries a rather innovative approach: it locks the victims out of Windows and doesn’t …

Of the three million respondents to a SonicWALL quiz, only 7.4% answered all of the questions correctly. When asked to determine whether a suspect email was a phishing e-mail …

IEEE announced the ratification of IEEE 802.3bgTM-2011, 40Gb/s Ethernet Single-mode fiber optical interface, a new standard enabling 40 Gb/s serial Ethernet interfaces to be …

HP announced the first application security analysis solution that discovers the root cause of software vulnerabilities by observing attacks in real-time. HP Fortify Real-Time …

B-Sides Vienna is a hacker conference targeted at security researchers, system and network operators, application developers, hardware hackers, hackerspace members, and …

Numbers and expiry dates of over 600 credit cards belonging to government and law enforcement employees have been stolen and exposed after an attack aimed at an Australian …

The Open Group announced a new information security management standard, The Open Group Information Security Management Maturity Model (O-ISM3), which enables the creation of …

Koobface – the computer worm that targets users of the social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others – has stopped using Facebook to …

After many, many offers of applications that supposedly show Facebook users who views their profile the most, has the time finally come when these lures don’t work as …