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A new McAfee report highlights the rise of political hacktivism in countries like Poland, Latvia, Denmark and Switzerland as well as the most significant spam-generating …

When a file is created on a Windows system, a DOS-compatible 8.3 short file name (hereafter referred to as ‘8.3 alias’) is generated for backwards compatibility …

HBGary released Responder Professional 2.0, a Windows physical memory and automated malware analysis platform that analyzes all programs in memory including malware to obtain …

The Common Assurance Metric (CAM) launched today is a global initiative that aims to produce objective quantifiable metrics, to assure Information Security maturity in cloud, …

A phishing site masquerading as the secure login page of CenturyLink, the fourth largest local exchange telephone carrier in the US in terms of access lines, has been …

Zero-day vulnerabilities have become prized possessions to attackers and defenders alike. As the recent China-Google attack demonstrated, they are the basis on which most of …

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

Security researchers Larry Pesce and Mick Douglas demonstrated on Friday – at this year’s ShmooCon security conference in Washington, D.C – the amazing …

Black Hawk Safety Net, the biggest Chinese hacker training site, has been shut down by the police. The tally is: three people arrested; nine Web servers, five computers and …

ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) today presents a new report on accessing social networks over mobile phones which points out the risks and threats …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Cloud computing not as safe as they want you to think Cloud computing has …

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, a blogger for IT World, raised the question, but before answering it, let’s take a look at the current backdrop that should affect the …