Botnets battling for digital real estate
April saw high activity from multiple botnets, namely Gumblar and Sasfis, according to a report by Fortinet. While Gumblar remained in the No. 1 position in Fortinet’s …
Rogue software details: RST Antivirus 2010
RST Antivirus 2010 is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Files …
Wireshark 1.2.8 released
Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. The following bugs have been fixed: HTTP parser limits …
Suricata: Network intrusion detection and prevention engine
Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multi-threaded …
Firewall Builder 4.0 released
Firewall Builder helps you write and manage configuration for your firewalls. It writes iptables commands, pf.conf file, Cisco router access lists or PIX configuration for …
Deleting yourself from the Web
If there is one positive thing that the recent Facebook privacy changes have brought, it is a raised awareness about the fact that we ourselves are the best guardians of our …
Canadian Pharmacy no longer top spammed brand
According to the statistics by M86 Security Labs, Canadian Pharmacy – the long-standing champion of spammed affiliate brands – made way for the new reigning king: …
Phishers want your Apple gift card
Apple has received a lot of attention lately: the lost iPhone, the Apple vs Adobe bickering about Flash, but it was mostly the release of the iPad and its amazing popularity …
Security risks of web application programming languages
A new WhiteHat report examined the security of specific programming languages. Until now, no other website security study has provided detailed research on how programming …
Facebook security bug lets you eavesdrop on your friends’ chats
On Wednesday morning, a Facebook security flaw allowed users for a few hours to get a glimpse at their friends’ private chats and their their latest pending …
Freeware detects performance loss across the network
Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks 3.0 (DPAN) is a free utility that detects and reports severe fragmentation-related performance loss across the network, all from one …
Facebook Social Plug-ins privacy concerns sorted out by Palo Alto Networks
Facebook users in enterprises are susceptible to having their confidential data shared with third parties because of recent changes at Facebook, which cause behavioral data …
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