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Elcomsoft has discovered a backdoor in Intuit’s Quicken software. Millions of people worldwide have chosen Quicken as their financial software, in part because of …

PGP Corporation has announced it has closed $27.3 million in Series C funding. The round adds new investors Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corporation, and …

Don’t add friends you don’t actually know when using social networking sites. Often the “free” code available in social networking sites, such as …

Sophos is warning of a new ‘pump-and-dump’ stock spam campaign which uses a PDF file to hoodwink potential investors. Sophos has identified email messages being …

Virtualisation is moving into the mainstream with 50% of IT professionals already using this new technology, or planning to do so within the next 18 months, reveals a survey …

Sophos has discovered a worm which copies itself onto removable drives, such as USB flash drives, in an attempt to spread information about AIDS and HIV. The LiarVB-A worm …

Secure Computing announced a new version of SmartFilter 4.2 with TrustedSource. It provides granular protection against today’s Web 2.0 threats, allowing companies to …

In the office I often use different word processors and text writing software applications. The majority of my output files are generated by the nifty (especially for a long …

Headline-grabbing news about computer security breaches and their devastating consequences on an agency and its constituents is the stuff of every CSO’s nightmare, …

Czech hackers managed to get access to a webcam and insert realistic footage of nuclear explosion. The incident was broadcasted on the Czech TV programme Panorama on Sunday. …

Alexander Sotirov is a Vulnerability Researcher at Determina Inc. In this video, made at Black Hat Europe, he discusses on a general note how exploit writers develop exploits.

Here are a couple of quotes found while traversing today’s media releases regarding the HP’s acquisition of SPI Dynamics. Microsoft to follow? “This is the …