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Are your organisation’s secrets actually secret?
If we look back over recent years, organizations quickly established databases for storing information and, with them, ways to mine these records to squeeze as much …
E-mail infections decline as exploits propagated via social media increase
Trojans are still in the spotlight, comprising 55 percent of all new threats according to PandaLabs. Infection via email, traditionally the most popular vector for spreading …
Europe’s largest security training event
SANS London 2010 is Europe’s largest training event for information and security professionals which is celebrating its 5th anniversary this year with one of the most …
Comcast hackers sentenced to prison
Christopher Allen Lewis, a.k.a. “EBK”, and Michael Paul Nebel, a.k.a. “Slacker”, were sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to disrupt …
The domination of autorun malware
The top ranking e-threat for the third quarter, with 11 percent of the total infections in the world, is Trojan.AutorunINF.Gen. This piece of malware is consistently among the …
PayPal expands consumer protection
Beginning Nov. 1, 2010, shoppers around the world will have expanded buyer protection when they make purchases at the millions of retailers that accept PayPal. The expanded …
Stuxnet shows that cyber threats can impact entire nations
The Stuxnet worm continues to make headlines, most recently with reports that computers at an Iranian nuclear power plant have been infected, potentially giving hackers the …
HDCP encryption/decryption code released
The HDCP cipher is designed to be efficient when implemented in hardware, but it is terribly inefficient in software, primarily because it makes extensive use of bit …
Michael Chertoff to keynote RSA Conference Europe 2010
Former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is scheduled to deliver a keynote at RSA Conference Europe 2010 on Thursday, 14th October 2010. Mr …
AVG 2011 Internet security suite released
AVG released its newest Internet security suite, AVG 2011, which includes enhanced Web- and social network-protection, high detection rates and a faster, nimble and more …
Microsoft patches vulnerability in ASP.NET
Today Microsoft released a security update which resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in ASP.NET. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure. An attacker who …
U.S. leads the way in malware and firewall attacks
The US has overtaken India and Russia to become the biggest producer of viruses, according to Network Box. The U.S. is now responsible for 12.05 per cent of the world’s …