B-Sides Vienna welcomes hackers in June
B-Sides Vienna is a hacker conference targeted at security researchers, system and network operators, application developers, hardware hackers, hackerspace members, and …
Government-owned credit cards compromised in contractor breach
Numbers and expiry dates of over 600 credit cards belonging to government and law enforcement employees have been stolen and exposed after an attack aimed at an Australian …
Maturity model for information security management
The Open Group announced a new information security management standard, The Open Group Information Security Management Maturity Model (O-ISM3), which enables the creation of …
Koobface says goodbye to Facebook
Koobface – the computer worm that targets users of the social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others – has stopped using Facebook to …
“Official Profile Viewer Application” Facebook scam
After many, many offers of applications that supposedly show Facebook users who views their profile the most, has the time finally come when these lures don’t work as …
Spam about the Jasmine Revolution leads to malware
By the end of 2010, the total number of Chinese Internet users reached 457 million. That means that even if scammers and hackers concentrate exclusively on that particular …
Week in review: Epsilon breach, MITM attacks and the execution of the RSA hack
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews, videos and articles: The execution of the RSA hack More than two weeks have passed since …
TJX hacker appeals his sentence, claims US government sanctioned his crimes
Albert Gonzales has become a well-known name in information security circles when he was charged of having organized a gang of cyber thieves that managed to steal over 130 …
US government to deliver terror alerts via Facebook and Twitter
Color-coded terror alerts for US citizens could very soon become a thing of the past. Starting from April 27, the Department of Homeland Security is likely to differentiate …
Scammers continue to exploit Japanese disasters
As Japan has been struck again by a high-magnitude earthquake and warnings about a possible tsunami hitting the Japanese islands have been issued, malware peddlers have …
Cain & Abel 4.9.40 released
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted …
Uptick in rogue Facebook applications
GFI Software announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of March 2011. GFI researchers found that the Japanese tsunami, earthquake and subsequent …
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