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Bogus “Windows Email Security Update” emails lead to phishing

Hot on the heels of the malicious spam emails posing as Microsoft notifications about changes to Microsoft Services Agreement comes a Microsoft-themed phishing attempt. …

Phishers continue to target legitimate websites

Attackers confidently exploit legitimate websites with the same methods and that they succeed because victims are not implementing recommended best practices, countermeasures …

Real-world software security initiatives study

Cigital announced the fourth major release of the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) study. This release describes real-world data from fifty-one firms with active …

One third of European organizations refuse to implement BYOD

Imation released research which shows that German workers are most likely to follow rules around secure remote working, with 50% of German respondents saying that they always …

Data migrations: Potential security hole

While 95% of organisations move data at least once per year, 65% of those surveyed admitted that they were not confident sensitive data was protected during a migrationm, …

Cloud services market to surpass $109 billion in 2012

The public cloud services market is forecast to grow 19.6 percent in 2012 to total $109 billion worldwide, according to Gartner. Business process services (also known as …

Secure audio and microphone switch from Belkin

Belkin released its Secure Audio and Microphone Four-Port Switch which offers users centralized control over audio ports, and is designed to reduce the possibility of analog …

Two men plead guilty to hacking hundreds of Subway POS computers

Two Romanian nationals pleaded guilty today to participating in an international, multimillion-dollar scheme to remotely hack into and steal payment card data from hundreds of …

Virgin Mobile USA user accounts vulnerable to brute-force attack

Millions of subscribers of Virgin Mobile USA are in danger of having their accounts hijacked and misused because the carrier’s authentication method is easy to break …

Bogus “Refund Pending” emails targeting PayPal customers

Fake PayPal notifications about a bogus refund are hitting inboxes around the world, trying to trick users into following the offered link and supposedly log into their …

Microsoft issues workaround for IE 0-day exploited in current attacks

Microsoft has issued a security advisory with advice on how to patch a Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability recently spotted being exploited in the wild by attackers that …

Majority of companies suffered a web application security breach

Web application security incidents have become increasingly common and expensive, with the majority of companies experiencing at least one breach in the last 18 months and …

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