Anonymous continues defacing websites, releases Norton AV code
It is hard to predict whether this week’s arrest of six prominent LulzSec and AntiSec members will have a destructive enough effect on the loosely organized hacker …
Users hammered by fake AV resurgence
GFI Software released its VIPRE Report for February 2012, a collection of the 10 most prevalent threat detections encountered during the month. Most notably, GFI Labs has been …
IE 9 hacked at Pwn2Own, Google patches Chrome bugs
After the success they had with attacking Google’s Chrome browser, the team of vulnerability researchers from French firm VUPEN has also managed to hack …
Phishers exploit Facebook Timeline hate
Many Facebook users have still not reconciled themselves to the fact that the Timeline profile is here to stay, and this makes them prefect targets for scammers. According to …
Microsoft to release 6 bulletins on Patch Tuesday
The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advanced Notification for March 2012 covers six bulletins which include one critical, four important, and one moderate. Bulletin 1 is labeled …
InfoSec World 2012 to highlight evolving threats
At InfoSec World Conference & Expo 2012, information security professionals gather for three days to share their experiences and products and to learn the latest …
NSA opens massive cryptologic center in Georgia
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service officially opened the new NSA/CSS Georgia Cryptologic Center. The $286 million complex will provide cryptologic …
Programming Perl, 4th Edition
Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language. Perl began …
Facebook cut down large-scale phishing with social authentication
Facebook, with its 845+ million users and some 1.1 billion daily login attempts, works on improving its authentication process all the time as many of these login attempts are …
Chrome already pwned twice at CanSecWest
The annual CanSecWest conference opened on Wednesday in Vancouver, and before the first session even started, Google’s Chrome was exploited successfully not once, but …
Apple iOS 5.1 released, updates security
Apple released the iOS 5.1 software update which comes with a variety of improvements and bug fixes. CFNetwork An issue existed in CFNetwork’s handling of malformed …
Anonymous takes down Vatican websites
The Italian offshoot of Anonymous has managed to take down for a few hours on Wednesday Vatican’s official website (vatican.va) and several more belonging to the …
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