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SOURCE Boston and Seattle CFP is now open

SOURCE Conference brings security experts and business professionals together in an intimate and personal environment to discuss the security industry’s most important …

Spying app kicked out of Android Market

Secret SMS Replicator, a spying application that forwards contents of a user’s text messages to the phone of the person who installed it in the first place, has been …

Webroot acquires Prevx

Webroot has acquired Prevx and will integrate Prevx’s technology into its cloud security services. “Webroot and Prevx share a common vision for revolutionizing …

RIAA’s sites downed by Anonymous DDoS attack

Anonymous continues its Operation Payback and has DDoSed two official websites belonging to the Recording Industry Association of America. Riaa.com and riaa.org have been …

Facebook discovers and “punishes” UID-selling developers

The recent discovery that some Facebook application were inadvertently forwarding users’ UIDs to advertising agencies and data collection companies has spurred the …

New DDoS Trojan used for downing dissident sites

A new DDoS Trojan connected with a slew of attacks against Vietnamese blogs has been discovered by SecureWorks. Dubbed Vecebot, the Trojan drops three files into the …

Secure USB drive with Windows Embedded Standard 7

Spyrus released a secure USB flash drive with Windows Embedded Standard 7 pre-installed. Unlike other USB flash drives that run the Windows operating system, the Secure Pocket …

RAID tower with hardware encryption

Addonics announced a family of Cipher Raid Towers with AES 256-bit full disk hardware encryption, a solution for applications that require reliable storage with redundancy and …

Week in review: Mac OS X Trojan, Bredolab shutdown and Firefox add-on for hijacking online accounts

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: Firefox extension makes social network ID spoofing trivial “When it …

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 – …

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