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A group of young internet fraudsters who set up an online criminal forum which traded unlawfully obtained credit card details and tools to commit computer offences were jailed …

Attackers are making a shift from using e-mail spam to more aggressively targeting the Internet, according to Barracuda Network. E-mail spam dropped by half during 2010, while …

Barracuda Labs analyzed more than 26 million Twitter accounts in order to measure and analyze account behavior. The analysis enabled researchers to model normal user behavior …

According to data gathered by Panda Security, only 39 percent of computers scanned in February were infected with malware, compared to 50 percent last month. Trojans were …

iTunes 10.2 comes with several new features, improvements and security fixes. ImageIO libpng is updated to version 1.4.3 to address multiple vulnerabilities, the most serious …

Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. Wireshark 1.4.4 fixes the following vulnerabilities: …

Fortinet announced its February 2011 Threat Landscape report, which details five zero-day vulnerabilities found in Cisco (FGA-2011-03), Adobe (FGA-2011-06) and Microsoft …

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted …

SANS Secure Europe Amsterdam is the second biggest event outside of the US offering 8 top level courses. What makes SANS Secure Europe Amsterdam a unique event is that these …

Organizations are at risk of malware as 76% of workers plug unknown USB flash drives into company PCs, potentially compromising corporate network security, according to …

Twitter users should be vigilant following the outbreak of a scam that is spreading links from users’ accounts without their knowledge. The scam, which has already …

Several vulnerabilities in PDF-Pro can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system, according to Secunia. 1. The application loads libraries (e.g. …