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The most important malware samples analyzed by PandaLabs this week are the MSNHorn.A and Nugache.M worms, and the Legmir.ASG Trojan. MSNHorn.A spreads through MSN Messenger by …

Internet connections are getting faster every day, so online antivirus solutions transformed from proof of concepts into actual quality security services. Lately I have been …

The Zhelatin/Storm Gang has been very busy lately. Their spamming tactics have changed from sending an attachment to sending a link that directs recipients to an IP Address. …

CORE GRASP for PHP is a web-application protection software aimed at detecting and blocking injection vulnerabilities and privacy violations. As mentioned during its …

Sophos is reminding computer users of the threat posed by phishers following the conviction of a 23-year-old identity thief who targeted users of AOL. Michael Dolan, formerly …

Li Jun, Wang Lei, Zhang Shun and Lei Lei are facing charges in a people’s court in Hubei Province in connection with the creation and distribution of the Fujacks worm. …

If I keep my documents on Google Docs, my mail on Yahoo Mail, my bookmarks on del.icio.us, and my address book on .Mac, is there any point in talking about the privacy of my …

The lucky winners in our “Hot Summer Book Giveaway” are: 1) Lennox B. – “Security Metrics” 2) Mathew L. – “The Art of Software …

(ISC)2 has expanded its global education offerings to support the next phase of Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 8570.1 — a phase that will involve an unprecedented …

Research conducted by IT security and control firm Sophos has revealed that fifty percent of workers are being blocked from accessing Facebook by their employers who are …

A version of Apophis, a tool used by cyber-crooks to handle information stolen from users infected by several variants of the Nuklus family of Trojans, stores data belonging …

Nikto is an open source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3300 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, …