Free return on security investment calculator
The Information Security & Business Continuity Academy launched its free Return on Security Investment (ROSI) calculator (registration required). This calculator provides …
New book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit
Fully updated for Windows Server 2008, this 2-in-1 Training Kit delivers in-depth exam prep, including self-paced lessons, exercises, and review, practice tests on CD, and an …
Week in review: IMF breach, Bitcoin-stealing Trojan and the 10 most common iPhone passcodes
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news: Foreign government behind IMF breach and data theft? The International Monetary Fund’s …
Trojan targets devices with custom Android versions
A Trojan targeting rooted smartphones and those with custom built versions of Android has been spotted on third-party Android markets in China. Lookout researchers have dubbed …
LulzSec leaked passwords come from Writerspace
Following LulzSec’s sharing of a list of 62,000+ random login credentials, people who have been looking into it say that some of them are likely to come from online …
Protect yourself from Olympic phishing scams
Nobody yet knows for certain whether they have been allocated 2012 Olympic event tickets. Until June 24, when confirmations arrive, there remains the risk that some people …
Trojan goes after Bitcoins
Bitcoin – the digital currency that has lately become a point of contention between those that consider it a perfect way of handling payments online and those who said …
LulzSec discloses 62,000+ random login credentials
LulzSec rampages on. They claimed they took out cia.gov for a couple of hours tonight, but its difficult to say whether they really did it or whether the site was made …
SpyEye Trojan attacks Air Berlin and AirPlus travelers
Trusteer have uncovered a SpyEye configuration that targets users of two leading European airline travel Web sites: Air Berlin, the second largest airline in Germany (after …
Free web hosting is a boon to phishers
Sometimes it seems that every legitimate service offered online can be misused by phishers, scammers and cyber criminals in general. Free mail services are abused to send out …
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 …