Mac Trojan disrupts automatic updating of XProtect
A variant of the recently discovered Flashback Trojan for Mac OS X has acquired the capability to disrupt the automatic updating of XProtect, the operating system’s …
U.S. DHS expects Anonymous to attack infrastructure
Anonymous is eyeing industrial control systems for future attacks, says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, but its members have yet to demonstrate a capability to …
Duqu: The next tale in the Stuxnet files
Stuxnet was possibly the most complex attack of this decade, and we expected that similar attacks would appear in the near future. One thing for sure is that the Stuxnet team …
Cisco expands data center networking portfolio
As Internet traffic volumes increase at exponential rates (by 2013 it’s predicted that there will be 56 exabytes crossing the internet per month) the data centers that …
How to make a cheap mobile malware jail
Analyzing mobile malware without spreading it further can be very difficult to achieve, especially when one wants the malware to behave as it would in the wild. Unlike …
McAfee detects kernel-mode malware
McAfee announced Deep Defender, which is capable of detecting nearly all kernel-mode malware. This level of security is possible with McAfee DeepSAFE technology because its …
Shinken: IT system and application monitoring
Shinken can monitor all IT from systems to end user applications. In case of a failure, it can alert the operation engineers so they can repair it. It has the same …
Fingerprint sensors for mobile ID devices
DigitalPersona launched a new generation of biometric fingerprint sensors designed specifically for the growing market of battery-powered mobile identification devices. The …
WatchGuard unveils new line of virtualized firewalls
WatchGuard is extending its line of UTM appliances to the virtual world. Designed for a VMware hypervisor environment, the new WatchGuard XTMv series of virtual firewalls …
Twitter protects freedom of speech and privacy of users
When LulzSec member Sabu recently answered a lot of questions on an impromptu Q&A session on Reddit by posting the answers on his Twitter account, he was asked why he …
Hardened Android kernel to be used by U.S. Army, government
The U.S. government is looking at replacing radio communication between federal, state and local law enforcement and response agencies with communication with smartphones, and …
Free Metasploit Community Edition released
Rapid7 launched Metasploit Community Edition: a new free addition to the Metasploit family of software solutions, which help security and IT professionals identify and …
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