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BitDefender impersonated by rogue antivirus

BitDefender has detected a new rogue antivirus utility that attempts to trick users into installing it by posing as a BitDefender product. Suggestively named ByteDefender, the …

Fresh security feature in the new Android 2.2

Newly released Android 2.2 is a minor platform release including user and developer features, API changes, bug fixes, as well as a new security addition. New device policy …

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. …

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