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Adobe PDF format riddled with exploitable features

Adobe’s PDF format and standard has been known for a while now to be easily exploitable and, thus, rather insecure. In the past, attackers have taken advantage not only …

Week in review: less spam, a new Android Trojan and the dark side of Twitter

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: The security landscape from 2010 to 2011 Vendor-neutral testing and …

The significant decline of spam

In October Commtouch reported an 18% drop in global spam levels (comparing September and October). This was largely attributed to the closure of Spamit around the end of …

Android Trojan with botnet capabilities found in the wild

A new, more sophisticated Trojan for Android devices has been spotting lurking on third-party Chinese Android app markets – the first ever piece of Android malware that …

WordPress 3.0.4 critical security update

Version 3.0.4 of WordPress is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called …

GSM cracking is all about knowledge, not money

Since the cracking of GSM encryption back in December 2009 by encryption expert Karsten Nohl, the cost of setting up an operation that includes sniffing out the calls made by …

The dark side of Twitter

In this video, Paul Judge, chief research officer for Barracuda Networks, talks about measuring and analyzing malicious activity on Twitter. He talks about identifying the bad …

45TB of storage in a Linux NAS

Synology released the DS1511+, a five-bay NAS will accept up to two DX510 expansion units for a total of up to 15 drives. Using 3TB drives yields up to 45TB of storage. The …

Older Facebook apps threaten your and your friends’ privacy

Facebook users that are concerned with keeping their privacy have probably become more careful with the years about adding applications to their account, since many ask access …

Execution flow-based web application testing

In this video, Rafal Los, the Security Evangelist at HP, talks about web application security testing and offers a variety of practical tips. The video was recorded at the …

Geolocation, mobile devices and Apple top the list of emerging threats

McAfee unveiled its 2011 Threat Predictions report, outlining the top threats that researchers at McAfee Labs foresee for the coming year. The list comprises 2010’s most …

Security information and event management tips

As organizations continue to collect, process and store larger amounts of data from an increasing number of sources, costs related to system and staff resources are soaring. …

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