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Many antivirus and antispyware solutions identify malicious programs by looking for known unique signatures contained inside them. Those signatures are stored inside a …

Anti-Phishing Working Group and IEEE will join forces for the development of the APWG e-Crime Researchers Summit (eCRS), the world’s only peer-reviewed technical …

Promisec has released an online encyclopedia of internal network security threats. The encyclopedia, which can be viewed by anyone for free, is continually updated with …

Recent media reports state that more than 100,000 student records were accidentally made available online.  The security blunder by The Princeton Review, an educational …

VeriSign today released VeriSign Code Signing Certificates for an application on Adobe AIR. Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that enables rich Internet …

BreakingPoint Systems released a detailed test methodology and video series that enables network engineers to test the deep packet inspection (DPI) features of content-aware …

Recently, I have experienced an increase in organizations questioning how real is the threat of Internet terrorism and what they can do to protect themselves. As a former …

O2Security released the newest version of its email gateway appliance. SifoML v3.9 provides new features and enhancements, including the ability to prevent attacks on networks …

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) announced the summary of forthcoming changes to PCI DSS as it moves from version 1.1 to the previously announced version 1.2 in …

A computer server within InterActive Financial Marketing Group (IFMG), a division of Dominion Enterprises located in Richmond, Virginia, was hacked into and illegally accessed …

Symantec Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire PC Tools, a global provider of innovative software products designed to protect the privacy and security of Windows …

Reputation attacks target both individuals and companies, and their goal is to ruin the victim’s reputation. While attack techniques are varied, the consequences are …