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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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

Today Microsoft released a security update which resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in ASP.NET. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure. An attacker who …

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 …

CompTIA will update its flagship CompTIA A+ certification exams with new content related to the Windows 7 operating system beginning in January 2011. Windows 7 content will be …

The Spamhaus Project has released the Spamhaus Whitelist which allows Internet mail servers to separate incoming email traffic into 3 categories: Good, Bad and Unknown, …