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PayPal most phished, Facebook most blocked
OpenDNS released statistics about which websites were commonly blocked — and which websites users were frequently given access to — in 2010. The report additionally details …
Decisive factors for designing resilient networks
The resilience of data networks is vital for the economy and society. Yet, abnormal but legitimate traffic, malicious attacks, accidents or human mistakes, and technical …
Man tries to work for CIA in order to spy for China
Glenn Duffie Shriver from Michigan was sentenced to 48 months in prison for conspiring to provide national defense information to intelligence officers of the People’s …
All-in-one home online security from Kaspersky
Kaspersky Pure Total Security provides central management to easily maintain the security of multiple PCs from a single PC: Run all scans, updates, and backup tasks …
Internet porn still main source of threats
A significant 63% of the users attempting to find adult content on their computers compromised their computers’ security on multiple occasions, according to BitDefender. …
The vulnerability species: Origin and evolution
There is an on-going arms-race in the IT security industry between vendors striving to produce secure software, and researchers’ and cybercriminals’ efforts (and …
Cain & Abel 4.9.37 released
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 …
Lush hack due to numerous security vulnerabilities
The Web site of Lush, the natural ingredients cosmetic firm, has reportedly been cracked and subverted by attackers, with reports that customers’ bank details have …
WatchGuard XCS gains spam blocking and encryption capabilities
WatchGuard released a free update to its XCS (extensible content security) line of email and web content security appliances that includes new features to make stopping spam …
OpenSSH 5.7 released
OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. It encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to …
Week in review: Cybercriminals moving away from Windows and Facebook privacy
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Dating site creates profiles based on information scraped online Various publicly …
Major government websites hacked with access for sale
Researchers from Imperva’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) have found dozens of .mil, .gov and .edu web sites which have been hacked with access up for sale due to …
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