Two years ago, a US federal judge decreed that a criminal defendant can’t be coerced into giving up the encryption key to his encrypted hard drive because that would …

A Romanian security researcher that goes by the handle “Unu” has made public his latest conquest. He managed to gain access to databases of the The Wall Street …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed Facebook users via an open letter today, and announced a few changes aimed at improving the privacy settings and allow users more …

There is an all-around media frenzy going on about the 8 million GPS location requests that Sprint Nextel received and automatically granted through a web portal to law …

Espionage is a discreet tool that integrates seamlessly with Apple's Finder, and its main "reason of being" is to protect individual folders and applications by encrypting its …

Lance Atkinson, the Australia-based New Zealander that has been found guilty of organizing a spam ring along with American accomplice Jody Smith, has been fined with more that …

A FreeBSD exploit that grants OS root access to unprivileged users was published yesterday on the Full Disclosure mailing list by Nikolaos Rangos, a German researcher that has …

“Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security” is a paper by Frank Stajano, an associate professor with the Computer Laboratory of the …

Clientless SSL VPN products from multiple vendors put users at risk of a variety of web-based attacks because they “break fundamental browser security mechanisms”. …

Bit.ly, one of the most popular URL shortening services, announced it will be integrating three new security-related services by the end of the year: 1. Websense’s …

You’re starting up your Windows (7, Vista, XP, NT, W2K, W2K3 or W2K8 PC or server) and everything looks normal. You log in, and your faced with a black screen with a …

Almost a year ago, the Microsoft Malware Protection Center launched a honeypot FTP server with the intention of researching the attacks that normal users are subjected on an …