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New vulnerability impacts Internet Explorer users

Microsoft is investigating new, public reports of a vulnerability in all supported versions of Internet Explorer. The main impact of the vulnerability is remote code …

Popular online services graded on SSL implementation

It seems that Firesheep has succeeded where similar tools have failed in the past: the issue of full end-to-end encryption for all websites – especially the most popular …

Perverted Facebook hacker targeted women

The recent arrest of a 23-year-old California man that has allegedly hacked e-mail accounts of more than 170 women and posted sexually explicit pictures found within them to …

New deep packet analysis technology

NetScout Systems announced Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI) technology, a transformative real-time Deep Packet Analysis (DPA) engine that allows both enterprises and …

Google Android vulnerabilities

A shocking number of high-risk security flaws in Google’s Android smartphone OS have recently been discovered by security firm Coverity. “We found 88 high-risk …

Fake USAA e-mails phishing for card information

E-mails purportedly sent by the United States Automobile Association (USAA) have been hitting inboxes in the last few days, M86 researchers warn. In it, the recipients are …

Measure, visualize and understand WLAN clients

AirMagnet released n (including the AirMagnet Planner module) and AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO 9.0. Both products now include the company’s new multi-adapter solution, …

End-to-end data security

RSA announced its RSA Data Protection Manager product which combines tokenization and application encryption, two popular application-based controls, with advanced token and …

Human rights organization targeted with cyber attack

The website of Survival International – a human rights organization that campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples – has been knocked offline last week …

The aftermath of the Bredolab botnet shutdown

The war against botnets will be long and hard – there is no doubt about it. For one thing, command and control centers can be replaced and the targeted botnet …

Fake AV pushers poison US election search results

The US midterm elections are taking place today, and scareware pushers aren’t sitting with their hands crossed – they have poisoned related search results: Search …

Protect login credentials with key stroke encryption

SutiSoft released SutiKSE, a security solution that protects data being entered on the keyboard. The solution helps protect against keylogging software and malware threats …

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