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Adobe to patch critical security issues
Adobe is planning to release updates for Adobe Reader 9.3.4 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 for Windows and Macintosh, and Adobe Reader 8.2.4 and Acrobat …
37 charged in global ZeuS bank fraud schemes that stole millions
Manhattan U.S. Attorney charged 37 defendants, in 21 separate cases, for their roles in global bank fraud schemes that allegedly used hundreds of false-name bank accounts to …
Cloud computing investments to increase
Investments in cloud computing solutions and services are poised to increase in the next 12 months as opportunities for IT companies and their customers come into clearer …
Remote Linux desktop for your iPad
iLIVEx is a fast, secure and fault-tolerant X11 client that turns the Apple iPad into an X terminal for Linux and Unix. It allows iPad users to connect to Unix and Linux …
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 …
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