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Users should be aware of potential threats created by devices that are already compromised or tampered coming off the shelves. The Trend Micro 2010 Future Threat Report talks …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Phishing campaign targets cPanel users Trusteer warned the customers of …

Many administrators, IT directors, and CSOs are tired of the constant system patch battle and constant security software updates. The Google Chrome OS offers them hope for a …

NSS Labs released its latest Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Comparative Group Test Report for the fourth quarter of 2009. The report evaluates 15 NIPS products from …

Mobius Forensic Toolkit is an open source forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing …

The latest State of the Internet 2009 report by CA states that the most notable 2009 online threats were rogue/fake security software, major search engines, social networks …

The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration …

Recent studies show that securing the operating system is recognized as a necessary practice in an organization’s overall security policy, but it is not being done on a …

A large scale SQL injection attack has injected a malicious iframe on tens of thousands of susceptible websites. ScanSafe reports that the injected iframe loads malicious …

Snort Alert Monitor works in conjunction with Snort and provides much better reporting and real-time statistics that aren’t available with Snort alone. New in Snort …

According to the Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report, small errors on the part of computer users or their IT departments may not wreak havoc on their own, but in combination, …

iptables is the userspace command line program used to configure the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x IPv4 packet filtering ruleset. It is targeted towards system administrators. …