Half of organizations lost information on USB drives
Inexpensive consumer USB Flash drives are ubiquitous in all manner of enterprise and government environments – typically with very little oversight or controls, even in …
Sony PSN offers identity protection to users
Almost four months after admitting that its PlayStation Network servers have been breached and the personal information of 70 million users has been compromised, Sony has …
Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for Security Practitioners
Cyber Warfare explores the battlefields, participants and the tools and techniques used during today’s digital conflicts. The concepts discussed in this book will give …
Hackers raid mass killer’s email accounts for info
After the recent hacking of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik Behring’s Twitter account, it seems that the same group of hackers has also decided to compromise two of …
Microsoft releases 13 security bulletins, fixes 22 vulnerabilities
Today Microsoft released 13 security bulletins, two rated Critical, nine Important and two Moderate. These bulletins address 22 unique vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, …
4,300+ compromised WordPress blogs poison Google Image Search results
Google Image Search has for a while now been littered with images that lure users to compromised sites that serve as doorway pages to other malicious sites. Part of the …
FBI officials become spam targets
Various government agencies and high ranking government officials have been the target of previous spam attacks. In their attempts to lure victims, criminals continue to …
Facebook mobile users get password reset option
Facebook has announced it will be adding a very welcome security feature for the 250 million users accessing the social network through their mobile devices – the …
Social networking users becoming privacy aware
A vast majority of computer users do not post vacation memories via social networks, according to a recent survey by Avira. During a June 2011 survey of its customers, …
Parental control software for smartphones
Code9 Mobile launched Code9 Mobile, a smartphone application that enables families to establish acceptable cell phone usage rules so kids learn to use their mobile devices in …
What really breaks SSL?
After years of being ignored — which is an unusual situation for the protocol that secures the Web — SSL became the focus of the interests of the security …
UK network and ISP study reveals slow speeds and geographic variance
A study by Pando Networks revealed striking disparities between the theoretical and real-world download speeds for British broadband users. By tracking the end-user speeds for …