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Spam in email traffic The amount of spam detected in email traffic averaged 86.3% in September 2009. A low of 83.3% was recorded on 18 September with a peak value of 91.3% …

The earliest public mention I could find of SQL injection (“piggybacking SQL statements’ as the author put it) was from someone who called himself Rain Forest …

Robert Abela is a Technical Manager at Acunetix and in this interview he discusses Web application attack vectors, the impact of Cross-Site Scripting, future threats and …

Kees Cook is the security engineer and Gerry Carr is the head of platform marketing at Canonical. In this interview they discuss the security improvements in Ubuntu 9.10, the …

One reader wrote in asking: “How can one practice social engineering before using it in the wild?” Answering is Chris “loganWHD” Hadnagy, the lead …

Today, it’s expected that merchants accept electronic payments. It’s more than expected that those payments are secure. No data leaks or breaches of any kind. The …

Dave Anderson is Director, Strategic Planning for Seagate and is involved in developing the opportunities for hard drives to contribute to system security. In this interview …

WordPress is one of today’s most popular publishing platforms. Like any other system, it needs security. What follows is a list of 5 practical plug-ins that extend its …

Web applications are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and control valuable data since they often have direct access to backend data such as customer databases. SSL and …

How many times have you used a USB flash drive at your offices? Hundreds? Thousands? Their sheer convenience makes usage almost second nature. But as often happens with IT …

Bo Olsen is a malware Researcher at Kaspersky Lab Americas. In this interview he discusses new malware threats, the problems the anti-malware industry faces today, Windows 7 …

Cloud computing has changed the audit and risk profile of data systems in most organizations. Whilst the economics of going down the cloud route for data storage are highly …