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Bank of America customer and staff accounts compromised

News that some Bank of America customers from the Greater Detroit area have discovered their accounts were pilfered after their debit cards were declined has raised the …

Siemens FactoryLink multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities in Siemens FactoryLink can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a Denial of Service, and compromise a …

Facebook XSS flaw misused for automatic Wall posting

A currently unpatched XSS vulnerability in the mobile API version of Facebook is currently being exploited to post messages to users’ Walls, which serve as a gateway to …

Qualys partners with StopBadware

Qualys is partnering with the non-profit anti-malware organization StopBadware. The two organizations will leverage one another’s strengths to bolster the Web’s …

Global spam drops by a third as Rustock botnet is dismantled

Symantec analysis reveals that in March, prior to its takedown, the Rustock botnet had been sending as many as 13.82 billion spam emails daily, accounting for an average of …

Social media threats and targeted attacks

In the video below, Alexandru Catalin Cosoi, the Head of Online Threats Lab at BitDefender, talks about the new breed of social media threats and sophisticated targeted …

Cisco to acquire newScale

Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately-held newScale, a provider of software that delivers a service catalog and self-service portal for IT organizations to …

McAfee.com filled with vulnerabilities

Discovering that your site is chock full of security vulnerabilities must be embarrassing for any company, but is surely doubly so when you are a company offering to secure …

Lawyers appeal Twitter data handover decision in WikiLeaks case

Not satisfied with the court’s decision that it has to turn over account details of three of its users to the US Department of Justice, three Twitter users have filed a …

The most challenging compliance regulation? HIPAA

From an IT standpoint, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the most challenging regulation to businesses today, according to Ipswitch. HIPAA, …

VPN client suite for Mac OS X

NCP engineering released its centrally managed IPsec VPN client for Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel) and 10.6. Mobile employees using Mac OS X are now able to access the company network …

New ransomware variant in the wild

A new variant of a piece of ransomware seen in the wild late last year has begun targeting users that made the mistake of landing on the site that serves it via drive by …

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