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A joint effort between the BitDefender and Yahoo security teams appears to have stymied the criminals behind Trojan.Spammer.HotLan to generate and use Yahoo accounts to send …

New research from TowerGroup finds that businesses are not doing nearly enough to prevent the loss or theft of customers’ personal information. The pace of data loss is …

The new school year means new friends, new classes, and often a new computer to help get schoolwork done. Mobile computers in particular can also contribute to problems …

Never has the need to prove compliance with external regulations and internal policies been more acute than it is today. The likely consequences of failing to prove that your …

Our computer security model is broken. Worse yet, it never really has worked at all well, and is even less suitable for today’s uses. This talk explores the history …

Iftach Ian Amit from Finjan explains why widgets and gadgets on various websites and platforms are inherently insecure, despite the fact that standards exist to create secure …

Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com’s S3 Storage Service. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface …

Lock bumping became big news at last year’s Defcon when 11-year-old Jennalynn showed an exceptional talent for being able to bump almost any lock set in front of her. …

This talk discusses recent trends in security, and what every engineer needs to know to prevent the most significant emerging threats such as cross-site scripting and SQL …

HITBSecConf2007 is taking place between September 3rd and 6th 2007 in Kuala Lumpur. Here’s a list of interesting presentations: Injecting RDS-TMC Traffic Information …

SecureWorks announced today that it has seen an onslaught of Storm Worm attacks in the last two months. “From the first of January to the end of May, we only saw 71,342 …

SecureWorks reserach shows that the number of hackers attempting to attack its banking clients is up 81% since last year and hackers attempting to attack its credit union …