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BSA urges congress to pass cyber crime legislation
 The Business Software Alliance (BSA) today urged Congress to swiftly enact cyber crime legislation that would update criminal laws to provide law enforcement with …
Forecast: How Internet threats will evolve in 2008
PandaLabs published a forecast on how Internet threats will evolve in 2008. One of the key factors will be the increase in the amount of malware, known and unknown, in …
Open Source Vulnerability Database 2.0
OSVDB announced a major milestone in the cataloging, classification, description and management of software and hardware security vulnerabilities – the release of OSVDB …
Qualys releases QualysGuard PCI 2.0
Qualys announced the availability of QualysGuard PCI 2.0, the second generation of its On Demand PCI Platform. It dramatically streamlines the PCI compliance process and adds …
Eight security New Year’s resolutions for network managers
2008 is expected to continue the 2007 trend of increasing size, scope, and concentration of attacks on computer networks nationwide. Attacks are increasingly more targeted as …
Apple releases security update 2007-009
Today Apple released Security Update 2007-006 which addresses: Address Book Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or …
SquirrelMail compromise risk elevated to high
We mentioned on Friday that the SquirrelMail download packages were compromised. Although the first statement said that “modifications to the code should have little to …
Trend adds Intrusion Defense Firewall to OfficeScan
The new Trend Micro Intrusion Defense Firewall plug-in for OfficeScan 8.0 brings network-level Host Intrusion Prevention System capabilities to the endpoint. With IDF, …
Tips for online holiday shoppers to safeguard against banker trojans
Banker trojans, whose primary goal is financial gain, work in various ways, from capturing keystrokes to redirecting users to fake banking sites. Another threat that consumers …
Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery
Although fuzzing may sound like a new concept to some, the term is related to a concept that has been around for a couple of decades. It became famous in the past year as a …
Zenmap – Nmap official GUI screenshots
Zenmap is the official Nmap Security Scanner GUI. It is a multi-platform free and open source application which aims to make Nmap easy for beginners to use while providing …
10 years of Nmap celebrated with a new stable release
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of this powerful tool, Nmap 4.50 has been released. It is the first stable release in more than a year and the first major release since 4.00 …
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