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Data loss through cyber attacks decreased sharply in 2010, but the total number of breaches was higher than ever, according to the “Verizon 2011 Data Breach …

The days leading up to major religious holidays are when you should be more careful with the contents of your inbox. One malicious spam run recently spotted by McAfee consists …

Since the Epsilon breach, the customers of the company’s clients – such as US Bank, JPMorgan Chase, TiVo, Capital One, the Home Shopping Network, LL Bean Visa …

Several months ago, when the operators of the Sality P2P botnet pushed out malware that not only collected usernames and passwords and sends them to the C&C servers but …

A spam email campaign carrying a malicious attachment designed to download and run a fake AV solution on the recipient’s computer is currently hitting inboxes around the …

Ransomware is slowly becoming quite a problem, and the latest one spotted by F-Secure tries a rather innovative approach: it locks the victims out of Windows and doesn’t …

Of the three million respondents to a SonicWALL quiz, only 7.4% answered all of the questions correctly. When asked to determine whether a suspect email was a phishing e-mail …

After many, many offers of applications that supposedly show Facebook users who views their profile the most, has the time finally come when these lures don’t work as …

As Japan has been struck again by a high-magnitude earthquake and warnings about a possible tsunami hitting the Japanese islands have been issued, malware peddlers have …

GFI Software announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of March 2011. GFI researchers found that the Japanese tsunami, earthquake and subsequent …

A bogus application harvesting Facebook users’ login credentials has recently appeared on the social network, according to Symantec researchers. Luring in users with …

The recent compromise of a Comodo affiliate Registration Authority which resulted in the issue of nine rogue SSL certificates for seven popular domains has jolted the security …