Adobe patches Reader and Acrobat
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (and earlier versions) for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 (and earlier versions) for …
A toolkit to simplify network management
Ipswitch released the WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit, available as a free download for a limited time. The toolkit which helps monitor, diagnose and troubleshoot a vast …
New site for Google’s encrypted search
When Google unveiled the option of encrypted use of its search engine, people were mostly satisfied. But schools and other educational institutions had a problem with this new …
Elaborate Identity theft scheme targets a million consumers
A federal court has halted an elaborate international scheme that used identity theft to place more than $10 million in bogus charges on consumers’ credit and debit …
World’s first 3 terabyte external desktop drive
Seagate announced the world’s first 3 Terabyte (TB) external desktop drive. Available immediately, the 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk external hard drive which can store up …
Honeypot software for VoIP networks
Artemisa is an open source VoIP/SIP-specific honeypot software designed to connect to a VoIP enterprise domain as a user-agent backend in order to detect malicious activity at …
Cyber criminals steal almost $400,000 using a Trojan
A few months ago, a small escrow firm from California was targeted by cyber criminals that managed to transfer almost $400,000 from the firm’s bank account to a number …
Web protection from the cloud
McAfee released SaaS Web Protection. The new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Web security solution combines the reporting capabilities and features from McAfee solutions with the …
Sentrigo expands Repscan with DB2 and MySQL support
Sentrigo released version 3.5 of Repscan, the vulnerability assessment and security scanning solution that now supports all of the most widely deployed DMBS platforms …
Protection for the Android platform
F-Secure Mobile Security 6 on the Android platform has been released. It provides security for smartphones against malicious software and also safeguards confidential data …
YouTube used to peddle a Facebook password stealer
As chance would have it, today is the day when we shine the spotlight on YouTube being used to peddle malicious software. First, we had the showcasing of the capabilities of a …
IEEE delivers critical 1815 DNP3 standard
IEEE announced the ratification of its IEEE 1815 Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3) standard for electric power systems communications. The new standard, which improves …