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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: The security landscape from 2010 to 2011 Vendor-neutral testing and …

In October Commtouch reported an 18% drop in global spam levels (comparing September and October). This was largely attributed to the closure of Spamit around the end of …

Version 3.0.4 of WordPress is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called …

In this video, Paul Judge, chief research officer for Barracuda Networks, talks about measuring and analyzing malicious activity on Twitter. He talks about identifying the bad …

Synology released the DS1511+, a five-bay NAS will accept up to two DX510 expansion units for a total of up to 15 drives. Using 3TB drives yields up to 45TB of storage. The …

In this video, Rafal Los, the Security Evangelist at HP, talks about web application security testing and offers a variety of practical tips. The video was recorded at the …

McAfee unveiled its 2011 Threat Predictions report, outlining the top threats that researchers at McAfee Labs foresee for the coming year. The list comprises 2010’s most …

As organizations continue to collect, process and store larger amounts of data from an increasing number of sources, costs related to system and staff resources are soaring. …

In the video below, Keith Turpin talks about the secure coding practices quick reference guide. It’s a technology agnostic set of general software security coding …

A weakness and two vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM Lotus Mobile Connect, according to Secunia. These can be exploited by malicious people with physical access to …

Evidence is everywhere that cyber criminals exist, and they’re able to make a substantial living from their illegal activities. While it is true that many are focusing …

Vendor-neutral testing and certification firm ICSA Labs offers its thoughts on the security landscape spanning 2010 and 2011. Mobile security 1. While most hackers heavily …