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12 months in prison for hacking

A former senior database administrator for GEXA Energy in Houston was sentenced to 12 months in prison for hacking into his former employer’s computer network. Steven …

41% of IT pros admit to snooping on confidential information

The results of a Cyber-Ark global survey show that 35 percent of respondents believe their company’s highly-sensitive information has been handed over to competitors. …

Tax credits filing deadline phishing attacks

July 31st is the deadline to file a tax credits renewal with HMRC or pay the second instalment of income tax. The danger now, says Trusteer, is that tax credit filers will …

Ad-Aware releases Total Security

Released today, Ad-Aware Total Security is an all-in-one security solution that includes a firewall, anti-phishing, identity theft protection, anti-spam, parental control, …

Webroot acquires BrightCloud

Webroot acquired BrightCloud, a Web content classification and security services provider. Webroot will integrate BrightCloud’s technology with its own proprietary …

Free protection from malicious web pages

Trend Micro Browser Guard 2010 is a free browser plug-in which proactively protects users against Internet threats by identifying malicious web pages and blocking the threat …

Data breach at AMR Corporation

AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, sent letters to potentially affected retirees, former employees, and a limited number of current employees about a …

Secure webmail platform with end-to-end encryption

Connect In Private debuted a secure enterprise-class webmail platform that adds encryption capabilities for all data contained in email messages, including attachments. The …

Risk of cyber threats seriously underestimated

A new study by the Ponemon Institute demonstrates that a vast majority of enterprises of all sizes regularly fall victim to advanced cyber threats, at the same time, more than …

Vacation security advice, caution with travel planning

With the boom in social networks and the numerous applications now available for sharing information across the Internet, PandaLabs advises users to take extra precautions to …

TCPSniffer 0.2 released

TCPSniffer is a simple and straightforward raw Winsocket based sniffer implementation. It reads all incoming and outgoing TCP packets and searches the payload after predefined …

XSSer: Automatic tool for pentesting XSS attacks

XSSer is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting XSS injections against different applications. It contains several …

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