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Prison sentence in the Scientology cyber attack case
Brian Thomas Mettenbrink from Nebraska has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for his participation in the cyber attacks on the Church of Scientology’s servers a …
New online seminars for CISSP concentrations
(ISC)2 announced LiveOnLine Official CBK Review Seminars for its Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) concentrations, including architecture …
Security software trio in a new bundle
A new retail consumer bundle includes identity protection and laptop theft recovery services for a comprehensive set of consumer security products in one package. The security …
Free Windows data recovery software
Newly released EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition should solve all your data loss problems – recover files emptied from Recycle Bin, or lost due to software crash, …
Very interesting new type of a phishing attack using tabs
Aza Raskin from the Mozilla Firefox team found a pretty interesting new type of phishing attack that uses automatic change of favicon icon to make one of your tabs look like …
Slackware 13.1 released
After many months of development and careful testing, Slackware 13.1 has been released. Slackware 13.1 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you’ll find two …
New cloud powered ZoneAlarm Free Firewall
The new ZoneAlarm Free Firewall is powered by the community for stronger security – its DefenseNet service analyzes malware automatically reported by the community of …
New book: “Surviving Cyberwar”
“Surviving Cyberwar” examines in depth the major recent cyber attacks that have taken place around the world, discusses the implications of such attacks, and …
New Facebook clickjacking attack
There is a new Facebook focused worm circulating around. Currently it seems that it doesn’t have any malicious payload, except spamming via posting messages to the …
Wi-Fi security patent granted for dynamic authentication and encryption
Ruckus Wireless has been granted a patent by the USPTO for an innovation that radically simplifies the configuration, administration and strength of wireless network security. …
More Facebook users hit by “distracting beach babes”
Sophos is warning Facebook users to be on their guard, after an attack this weekend designed to infect computers with adware. Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users are …
Google now supports encrypted search
Google just rolled out SSL encryption to Google Search. The option is currently in beta, therefore the users aren’t automatically transferred to https. Over the years, …
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