Help Net Security newsletters: Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here!

Please turn on your JavaScript for this page to function normally.
“Chuck Norris is dead” Facebook scam

Chuck Norris, the popular martial artist/ actor whose “tough guy” image has spawned a countless jokes and memes on the Internet, has been killed off by Facebook …

“Frankenmalware” active in the wild

If you’re not careful and you don’t use anti-malware software, you might end up with various viruses, Trojans and worms on your computer. But, according to …

Rogue apps make comeback in “Hours spent on Facebook” scam

Rogue Facebook applications were at one point in time extremely popular with scammers, but users getting wise regarding that approach have made the crooks steer clear of them …

Searching for Google Chrome can lead to malicious content

Searching for a link to download Google Chrome might result in a malware infection, warns a Websense researcher. According to him, if a user enters the term “Download …

Carberp Trojan targets French broadband subscribers

Last year, Carberp emerged on the online banking fraud scene as a competitor to the dominant financial malware platforms Zeus and SpyEye. Trusteer recently discovered a …

Securely upload data to the AWS cloud

Amazon announced AWS Storage Gateway, a service that provides a new option to securely upload data to the AWS cloud. The AWS Storage Gateway connects an on-premises software …

Targeted attacks will change the economics of security

Today, European Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, will unveil the new European Privacy Directive, designed to safeguard personal, identifiable information that is stored …

IT industry business confidence remains flat

IT companies express tempered optimism heading into the first quarter of the year, though longer-term prospects look more promising. CompTIA projects a worldwide IT industry …

Cloud-based fuzzing for zero-day vulnerability discovery

Codenomicon released the Fuzz-o-Matic cloud-based software security Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for enterprise software and applications running on Windows, Linux, …

Comprehensive Java testing solution

Parasoft introduced a new release of Parasoft Jtest: a comprehensive Java testing solution that automates static analysis, unit testing, coverage analysis, runtime error …

Google+: The Missing Manual

If you want to gain more control over your social networking activities with Google+, this jargon-free guide helps you quickly master the ins and outs of the site. Learn how …

Hacker allegedly leaks 100K Facebook account credentials of Arab users

The slew of hacks, leaks of credit card information, DDoS attacks and defacements executed by Arab and Israeli hackers that transferred part of the longstanding, real world …

Don't miss

Cybersecurity news
Daily newsletter sent Monday-Friday
Weekly newsletter sent on Mondays
Editor's choice newsletter sent twice a month
Periodical newsletter released when there is breaking news
Weekly newsletter listing new cybersecurity job positions
Monthly newsletter focusing on open source cybersecurity tools