Wi-Fi presents treasure trove for ID thieves
TraceSecurity CTO has demonstrated how ID thieves can imitate Wi-Fi services and lure unsuspecting consumers into an ID theft nightmare. During today’s broadcast of …
Increased use of spam combined with social engineering to spread malware
PandaLabs has detected an increase in the use of spam combined with social engineering to spread malware. Several examples have appeared over the last few days. The most …
New version of AppScan web application security testing tool
Watchfire announced a new quality assurance edition of the Company’s flagship product, AppScan. AppScan QA introduces the latest web application security testing to the …
Instant messaging worm spreads via Skype messages
The Pykse-A worm spreads via Skype instant messages, posing as a link to a photograph of a young model called Sandra. Clicking on the link does display an image of a scantily …
Sourcefire launches enterprise threat management strategy
Sourcefire announced its Enterprise Threat Management strategy, along with the introduction of the Sourcefire Master Defense Center and post-connect network access control …
BrightCloud web filtering software development kit available
BrightCloud announced the availability of the BrightCloud Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK enables OEMs to integrate web filtering across the Internet’s Long Tail …
Security fixes in newly released Opera 9.20
Opera 9.20 was just released. From the security perspective, these are the fixes in the new release:Fix for character encoding inheritance issue with frames, which could …
JSCAPE Secure FTP Server version 3.0 released
JSCAPE announced the release of JSCAPE Secure FTP Server Version 3.0. The platform independent managed file transfer solution now supports all file transfer protocols …
Global Threat Network detects the World War III worm
Cloudmark announced that the company’s advanced fingerprinting technologies, in combination with the Global Threat Network, identified the “World War III” …
OPSWAT to support CounterSpy threat detection technology
Sunbelt Software announced a partnership, whereby Sunbelt will provide OPSWAT with CounterSpy antispyware APIs and related R&D support for OPSWAT’s Endpoint …
Anti-Spam Product Developers’ Consortium formed
ICSA Labs announced the formation of the Anti-Spam Product Developers’ Consortium. This consortium was created to advance anti-spam technologies and to provide a …
Designing BSD rootkits: An introduction to Kernel hacking
Learning how rootkits work can teach us a lot about an operating system. In Designing BSD Rootkits: An Introduction to Kernel Hacking (No Starch Press, April 2007), author …
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