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SplashID for iPhone introduces finger pattern login

SplashID 5.3 includes a unique new pattern-based option for accessing a user’s secure database of passwords, web logins, account numbers, PINs, and other sensitive …

Survey: 71% of companies monitor employee social media use

Over seventy percent of corporations have visibility into employee use of social media, according to a recent survey from nCircle. The online survey of 257 security …

Fake fast food survey with cash reward leads to phishing site

Scammers often use the familiarity of a brand as a means of lessening the victims’ tendency to be cautious when perusing unsolicited emails. In this latest email scam, …

Beware of fake emails from Twitter Support

As evidenced by the tweets on their official Safety account, Twitter is warning their users not to open emails purportedly coming from Twitter Support (support@twitter.com) …

Portable PHP password hashing framework

phpass is a portable public domain password hashing framework for use in PHP applications. It is meant to work with PHP 3 and above, and it has actually been tested with at …

McAfee update cripples thousands of PCs

The misidentification of a legitimate Windows file as a virus and its subsequent deletion was what made Windows XP running computers all over the world enter in a continuous …

Metasploit Express: Easy-to-use penetration testing

Rapid7 introduced Metasploit Express, a comprehensive penetration testing solution built on the open source Metasploit Framework. Metasploit Express is designed specifically …

Zbot acquires file infection feature

A Zbot Trojan variant that has the ability to infect other files has been discovered recently. It searches for .exe files in predefined places and injects into them 512 bytes …

Spying the spy: How to turn Trojans against criminals

“Researchers do vulnerability research on so many various application, why not to do it on this one?” asked himself Andrzej Dereszowski, founder and director of …

TinyIDS: Distributed intrusion detection system

TinyIDS is a distributed Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for Unix systems. It is based on the client/server architecture and has been developed with security in mind. The …

So, you bought a fake AV. What happens next?

A Sunbelt researcher has had the “fortune” of having a relative fall for the scam, which gave him the opportunity to take a peak at the process following the …

Rogue software details: Vistop

Vistop is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what folders and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Folders …

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