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GFI Software announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for June 2011. Highlights for the month included continued phishing attacks, notably one affecting …

Internet Systems Consortium today released two new security advisories detailing a couple of newly found security issues within ISC BIND 9. ISC BIND 9 Remote packet Denial of …

Mobile applications have become one of the hottest trends, but this has come at a price. The sharp rise in popularity means businesses are rushing their apps to the market, …

Acclaimed computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, well known for his invention of the World Wide Web, is confirmed as the Closing Keynote Speaker at the 12th annual RSA …

A person or a group going by the name of TheScriptKiddies managed to hack @foxnewspolitics on Twitter and used it to announce fake death of President Barack Obama. Here are …

Chris Evans, author of vsftpd announced that the master site for vsftpd was compromised and that the latest version of vsftpd (vsftpd-2.3.4.tar.gz) was backdoored. The …

In the complex and ever-changing landscape of online crime, cybercriminals have made a fundamental shift in strategy, abandoning traditional mass spam attacks in favor of …

There are many books on network certification, this one tells you what to do once you’ve passed the exam and out in the real world. Network Warrior, Second Edition …

WordPress 3.1.4 is available now and is a maintenance and security update for all previous versions. This release fixes an issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user …

The Hiloti generic downloader is a Trojan first seen in December 2008 has shown a dramatic increase in infection rates of PCs during June 2011. Hiloti is a generic malware …

The volume of spam in email traffic increased 2.1 per cent in May, when compared with the previous month, making up on average 80.8 per cent of the total. A reduction of …

SANS and Mitre have released the CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors list for 2011. The list was compiled with the help of a great number of security experts from a …