Privacy and cleaning tool CCleaner 3.0 released
CCleaner is a system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet …
One in five card holders use birth date as PIN
Remembering passwords may seem the biggest problem you have when managing your e-mail or social network account, but that’s only because you don’t really believe …
Obama Administration gets a “B” for cybersecurity
The Electronic Privacy Information Center released its annual Privacy Report Card for the Obama Administration and – when compared to last year’s results – …
A peek into Google’s anti-malware operation
Google goes to great lengths to secure its users from threats lurking on the Web, because a half-hearted effort would soon drive them out of business. But, during his …
Microsoft contemplating SSL for Bing
HTTP session hijacking as a possibility and tools to execute it have been around for more than half a decade, but it took an easy-to-use Firefox add-on like Firesheep to point …
Telstra’s blunder leads to massive data leak
It is yet unknown if it was a human or computer error that made Australian telecommunications and company Telstra send out letters containing personal information (name, phone …
New PCI standards completed, tokenization still in question
The PCI Security Standards Council released version 2.0 of the PCI DSS and PA-DSS, designed to provide greater clarity and flexibility to facilitate improved understanding of …
One-time picture passcodes strengthen logins
Confident ImageShield is a cloud-based, multifactor authentication service that creates one-time passcodes by prompting users to correctly identify pictures from a dynamic …
RSA Conference 2011 Innovation Sandbox call for entries
RSA Conference announced that its annual Innovation Sandbox program has opened a call for submissions for the “Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2011. Kicking …
New 0-day flaw in Flash Player exploited in the wild?
Bad news just keep piling on Adobe – it looks like there is a new zero-day vulnerability in their Flash Player that is being exploited in the wild. Its existence is …
U.S. Postal Service mails fraud warning to 129 million households
It’s a sign of the times we live in when the U.S. Postal Service decides to carry out a mailing campaign that will deliver a brochure on fraud and identity theft to 129 …
25% of all targeted attacks hit the retail sector
Analysis reveals that targeted attacks have increased significantly since they were first discovered five years ago from one to two attacks per week in 2005 to 77 attacks per …
Featured news
Resources
Don't miss
- Attackers are exploiting auth bypass vulnerability on FortiGate firewalls (CVE-2025-59718)
- Why vulnerability reports stall inside shared hosting companies
- Zabbix: Open-source IT and OT observability solution
- How exposure management changes cyber defense
- European police busts Ukraine scam call centers