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Hacker fingerprints – the future of malware detection?

It has been obvious for a time now that security companies will have to find a new malware detection technique that will complement their heuristic engines searching for …

Skimming devices on gas pumps sending stolen card numbers via Bluetooth

A maintenance worker at a Shell gas station located in Florida was the first one to notice that a gas pump he was checking had been fitted with a credit card skimming device. …

Emerging threats in the end user environment

New social networking technologies, mobile devices and a more flexible and tech-savvy workforce are leading to increasingly complex and diverse end user environments with many …

Open source IDS Suricata 1.0 released

Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. Suricata is the result of …

Free browser security testing service

Qualys announced a free service, Qualys BrowserCheck, that scans web browsers looking for security flaws within the browser and its plug-ins. Security flaws in modern web …

10 steps for safe web surfing

For the millions heading out on vacations ranging from long-distance travel to short daytrips to the beach, or finalizing plans for them, the Internet is an important …

Nmap 5.35DC1 released

Nmap is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Nmap 5.35DC1 includes 131 NSE scripts (17 new), 6,622 version detection signatures, 2,608 …

Personal identity protection from McAfee

McAfee launched McAfee Identity Protection, one of the most comprehensive and easy to use identity protection services on the market. The product features proactive identity …

IBM delivers proactive network security

As today’s threat landscape continues to evolve and become more complex, IBM is introducing a new security appliance to help clients more easily adopt an IT …

Top 12 spam-relaying countries

Sophos has published its latest report into the top twelve spam-relaying countries, covering the second quarter of 2010. The United States continues to be the number one spam …

Week in review: New ZeuS version and multi-stage attacks cyber attacks

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: When identity theft is not your fault It is definitely true that you should be …

Bank of America phishing scam

Phishing emails purportedly coming from Bank of America are nothing new – every now and then scammers roll out a slight variation on the previous one, and this latest is …

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