“Highly critical” Opera vulnerability discovered
A highly critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting the Opera browser has been discovered by Marcin Ressel of Secunia: The vulnerability is caused due to an error when …
Serious Apache vulnerability disclosed
A serious vulnerability in Apache’s HTTP web server that enables the attacker to gain remote access to the server and total control of a database, has been discovered by …
There is a social engineering scheme for everyone
The human factor is the weakest link of the security chain – this statement has been said and written so many times, that is starting to become a cliche’. Even so, …
Spear phishing aimed at high-value targets increases
Spear phishing aimed at high-value targets increases The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) released its Q4, 2009 Phishing Activity Trends Report, which reveals that eCrime …
USB battery charger installs Trojan
The software that shows to which extent the battery is charged through the Energizer DUO USB recharger comes bundled up with a Trojan, says US CERT. The installer file for the …
Zuckerberg hacked into journalists’ email?
The renowned Facebook co-founder has been accused three years ago of stealing the source code and the business plan for the social network from some Harvard colleagues and for …
Fake drug peddlers hijack academic websites
Legal sites are often compromised and used as a stepping stone through which the user is taken to a malicious site. The latest of this kind of schemes has seen a string of …
Week in review: Aurora prevention, RSA Conference, and Mariposa botnet takedown
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Severe IE vulnerability threatens Windows XP users News of a …
Security pros doubt their network-based security
Brocade’s “man-on-the-street” survey at this week’s RSA conference in San Francisco, revealed that 47 percent of respondents believe their network …
Photos: RSA Conference 2010 Expo, part 5
Here’s a glance at the RSA Conference 2009 expo floor. The featured companies are: Entrust, SmartSwipe, Lumension, M86 Security, BlackBerry and Blockmaster.
An alternative to a web application firewall
XyberSecure presented XyberShield, a web application security service and real-time website threat identification and determent solution. Using its proprietary behavioral …
Is there a solution to the ZeuS problem?
Zeus Trojan has for a while now become almost a synonym for banking malware. Its sneakiness and the ability of its makers to constantly change and adapt it would be admirable, …
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