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50% of European teenagers give out personal information on the web – according to an EU study – which can remain online forever and can be seen by anybody. Today, …

BitDefender cautioned online daters about the increased security risks associated with looking for love online this year and their unique susceptibility to identity theft and …

Obviously, see cross-site scripting (XSS) is a big problem on the public Web. But there’s another angle to XSS that no one seems to be talking about – at least I …

Almost a quarter (24%) of UK adults believe retailers are primarily responsible for making online shopping safer, according to a survey of 1004 consumers by CyberSource. This …

Seagate today announced its Savvio 10K.4 hard disk drive, the world’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch enterprise-class drive. Built for the demands of enterprise servers and …

A new McAfee report highlights the rise of political hacktivism in countries like Poland, Latvia, Denmark and Switzerland as well as the most significant spam-generating …

When a file is created on a Windows system, a DOS-compatible 8.3 short file name (hereafter referred to as ‘8.3 alias’) is generated for backwards compatibility …

HBGary released Responder Professional 2.0, a Windows physical memory and automated malware analysis platform that analyzes all programs in memory including malware to obtain …

The Common Assurance Metric (CAM) launched today is a global initiative that aims to produce objective quantifiable metrics, to assure Information Security maturity in cloud, …

AntiSpyware is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Files …

ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) today presents a new report on accessing social networks over mobile phones which points out the risks and threats …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Cloud computing not as safe as they want you to think Cloud computing has …