Poisoned Google search results
Google has been and is very helpful – no doubt about it. But it seems to me that they should try to do something about the poisoned search results problem, otherwise …
Zeljka Zorz
Are 64-bit Windows inherently safer?
Microsoft has discovered a way to create the illusion that Windows 7 is more secure than its predecessors simply because it has a 64-bit version of the OS. As Joe Faulhaber of …
NSA on cyber attacks and Microsoft collaboration
Government Computer News reports that at a hearing entitled “Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace”, held two days ago …
Employee data breach at MassMutual
Internetnews reports that the latest data breach to be discovered happened to MassMutual, a Massachussets-based insurance company. One of the company’s employees …
Cyber criminals worked furiously in 2009
Symantec’s Security Responce team took it upon itself to gather information from various sources and thousands of experts and compile a list of threats that marred the …
Firefox 3.6 to prevent harmful add-ons
The soon-to-be shipped version 3.6 of the Firefox browser will have a new feature that will make it more stable. It is called Component Directory Lockdown, and it prevents …
T-Mobile personal user data breached and sold
T-Mobile UK got a nasty surprise when they realized that their customers whose contract was due to expire were being contacted by their competitors. They soon realized that …
Improved DNS security for .com and .net domains
It seems that after 15 years of predicting better security for the Domain Name System, the time has finally come for the implementation of DNSSEC, the technology that adds …
Raising security awareness in India
Securitybyte & OWASP AppSec Asia Conference 2009, India’s largest security conference, opened its doors today at the magnificent Hotel Crowne Plaza in Gurgaon. One …
First Windows 7 zero-day bug confirmed by Microsoft
The first Windows 7 vulnerability has been confirmed by Microsoft – a denial of service vulnerability in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol that cannot be used to …
Koobface worm creates Facebook accounts to spread
According to TrendLabs, there is a new Koobface component that makes Internet Explorer create Facebook accounts. It automates the whole process – the browser registers …
Cybercrime reality through FBI eyes
Addressing the crowd gathered at the Information Security Forum’s World Congress in Vancouver on Tuesday, Shawn Henry, FBI Assistant Director of Cybersecurity, shared …
