Automated social engineering PoC successful on Facebook and IRC
When it comes to social engineering attacks, one of the main challenges for the attackers is how to maximize the number of targets and the number of victims. In order to reach …
Backdoor in open source Linux IRC server
The public can be forgiven for thinking that Linux-based operating systems are somehow immune to attacks and compromises, since news of such an occurrence pops up …
VMware Data Recovery 1.2 released
VMware Data Recovery protects against data loss in your virtual environment by enabling backups to disk as well as fast and complete recovery. Resolved issues The following …
Gartner: Organizations need to re-evaluate SaaS
Software as a service (SaaS) will have a role in the future of IT, but not the dominant future that was first thought, according to Gartner. Organizations should carefully …
Keyloggers posting on webpages
Numerous keystroke logger entries have piled up on Pastebin.com giving rise to suspicions of massive keylogger infestations. As if the number of keystroke logger entries that …
Paid security solution still seen as a waste
Over the past years, Brazil experienced an exponential increase in both quantity and complexity of virtual attacks and spam. However, only 14.2% of Brazilians with Internet …
IDrive for WordPress: Plugin for automated backups
IDrive for WordPress is a simple plugin that lets you create an account on the fly, do an immediate backup and schedule automated daily backups for your WordPress files and …
Week in review: Microsoft and Adobe flaws, SQL injection attack, Wikileaks
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Critical Adobe Flash, Reader 0-day flaw exploited in the wild Adobe released the …
0-day Windows flaw published by Google researcher
Tavis Ormandy – the well-known Google security researcher who discovered the feature/vulnerability in Java back in April and forced Sun to patch it up swiftly by …
Adobe patches critical Flash flaw
Adobe released a security bulletin revealing the 32 vulnerabilities that it has patched with the release of Flash 10.1(.53.64). Among those is the critical 0-day flaw that has …
Gartner: Enterprises will reduce the share of security in their IT budgets
While security risks are not going away for companies, efficient and secure enterprises will actually safely reduce the share of security spending by 3 to 6 percent of their …
IRISS Conference 2010 call for papers
IRISS will hold its first annual conference on the 18th of November 2010. This all day conference will focus on providing you with an overview of the current cyber threats …
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