G20 summit related malicious spam campaign
Spammers are taking advantage of the oddest things. The lately detected spam messages concerning the upcoming G-20 summit in Korea is an example of such a specifically …
Data breaches cost hospitals billions
Data breaches of patient information cost healthcare organizations nearly $6 billion annually, and that many breaches go undetected, according to a study by the Ponemon …
Employees will take bigger risks during this holiday season
Employees in the US plan to spend less time shopping online from a work-supplied computer this holiday season than they did a year ago, but more of them are engaging in risky …
Classification of web applications and content by URL category
Blue Coat Systems announced that their PacketShaper appliances can now deliver instant awareness of Web applications and content. The appliances provide intelligent control …
Microsoft offers Security Essentials via Windows Update, Trend Micro objects
Trend Micro is crying foul over the latest Microsoft move that sees its U.S. customers being offered to install the company’s free Security Essentials solution through …
Royal Navy site hack forces MoD to suspend website
A Romanian hacker known as ‘TinKode’ has claimed to have broken into the main British Royal Navy website, www.royalnavy.mod.uk, and posted sensitive information …
Mismanaged data encryption causes financial loss
Venafi invited the 150-plus survey participants from the world’s largest companies to give their views on the problem of downtime caused by increasing encryption …
Extract and analyze digital evidence from Mac OS X systems
ATC-NY released Mac Marshal 2.0 which automates the forensics process for a cyber investigator. It scans a Macintosh disk, automatically detects and displays Macintosh and …
Wikileaks soon to be joined by new whistleblower site?
The Wikileaks saga continues. After having been denied a Swedish residence and work permit, Julian Assange is considering asking for asylum in Switzerland – and moving …
Firesheep countermeasure tool BlackSheep
Firesheep is the Firefox extension that makes it easier to steal logins and take over social media and email accounts after users log in from a WiFi hotspot or even their own …
Two FBI fugitives wanted on federal cyber crime charges captured
On November 3, 2010, Dorin Codreanu and Lilian Adam were arrested in Portage, Wisconsin by FBI agents. Codreanu and Adam have been fugitives since September 30 when FBI agents …
Portable multi-boot security suite Katana 2.0 released
Katana is a portable multi-boot security suite which brings together all of the best security distributions to run from one USB drive. Katana includes distributions which …
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