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AuthenTec, a provider of security, identity management and touch control solutions, and UPEK, a supplier of fingerprint solutions, announced that the companies have combined, …

Malicious links leading to the download of a malicious JavaScript payload have been popping up on various Twitter accounts, warns Kaspersky‘s Stefan Tanase. The payload …

TechCrunch Europe has been compromised and its code changed to redirect visitors to a server serving up malicious PDFs. Once downloaded and run, the PDF files exploit a …

TrueCrypt 7.0a has been released. This version contains a workaround for a bug in some custom (non-Microsoft) drivers for storage device controllers that caused a system crash …

Another very effective scam has been spotted coursing through Facebook, aided perhaps by the long Labor Day weekend and people’s wish to unwind and abundance of free …

When Google Buzz was rolled out in February – without being publicly tested first – all kinds of privacy issues became apparent almost immediately. As the EFF …

Research from the University of California San Diego and the University of Washington – and which concludes that modern cars are susceptible to wireless hacking – …

Every week, hackers are creating 57,000 new Web addresses which they position and index on leading search engines in the hope that unwary users will click them by mistake. …

nCircle released a new version of its Certified PCI Scan Service that is fully compliant with the latest PCI DSS requirements. The new requirements improve the processes …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and videos: Building secure web mashups In this video from OWASP AppSec Research 2010, …

An IM variant of the well-known “Solve the IQ test, get your results on you mobile phone” scam has been spotted by a Trend Micro analyst. He received a couple of …

In this video from OWASP AppSec Research 2010, David Byrne and Charles Henderson from Trustwave talk about automated vs. manual security.