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A bug tied to Facebook’s “Report/Block” process can be misused to access uploaded photos of people who have chosen not to share them publicly, says a poster …

Businesses in the U.S. are increasingly waking up to the threat of cyber crime according to the latest Lloyd’s Risk Index, but evidence shows the problem of cyber crime …

Ettercap is a network sniffer/interceptor/logger for ethernet LANs. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones, like SSH and HTTPS). Data …

Qualys announced a new release of QualysGuard Web Application Scanning (WAS) 2.1 that integrates with Selenium to help companies further automate scanning of web applications …

“Hi Folks. I’ve just discovered that C|Net’s Download.Com site has started wrapping their Nmap downloads (as well as other free software like VLC) in a …

Imperva announced its predictions for the top cyber security trends for 2012. The analysis is designed to help companies shield themselves from the threat of hackers and …

Kaspersky Virus Scanner is a new lightweight application to secure Mac computers, available from the Mac App Store. Kaspersky Virus Scanner detects and removes both Mac and …

According to industry estimates, as many as 90 percent of successful attacks are against vulnerabilities in which a patch already exists. Despite this statistic, many …

Sourcefire announced its Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) which combines IPS threat prevention, integrated application control and firewall capabilities in a high-performance …

Carriers are yet to be affected greatly by the revelations made by researcher Trevor Eckhart. Even though most mobile phone manufacturers have denied installing the Carrier IQ …

Amazon users are being targeted again with spam emails purporting to come from the “Amazon Team” and asking users to “confirm” their accounts, warns …

When the first computer viruses popped up, their behavior was so similar to that of their biological counterparts that security researchers simply chose to appropriate the …