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Some five months ago, news broke that social networks were sending users’ ID numbers and/or names to advertising agencies every time the users click on the ads, by way …

A number of bogus Twitter main pages have been popping up and are offering misdirected users a chance to see naked ladies and to download malicious applications, Sunbelt …

Reports are coming in that an unencrypted USB stick – apparently containing details on the Sellafield nuclear site’s operations – was found by a coach driver …

Encryption key and digital certificate inventories are rising, according to a study by Venafi. Poorly managed encryption leads to system downtime, non-compliance and audit …

Adobe is announcing the new Acrobat X Family of Products which includes Adobe Reader X as well as Acrobat X Suite, Acrobat X Pro, and Acrobat X Standard. Reader X is the only …

Theft of information and electronic data at global companies has overtaken physical theft for the first time, according to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report. The study …

New, advanced evasion techniques (AET) that can pose a serious threat to existing network security systems worldwide, according to Stonesoft. These AET threats significantly …

The recently started LinkedIn spamming campaign that delivers the ZeuS Trojan – or, according to some, the Bugat Trojan – has been tied to a gang that uses the …

Week in review: Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews, articles, reviews and podcasts: A foolproof drive-by-download blocking …

The issue of whether or not government or law enforcement agents are or should be allowed to go “undercover” on social networks is not a new one, but thanks to the …

ZeuS has for a while now been almost a synonym for banking Trojans of every shape and form. Some say that the attention that the information security community has focused on …

A vulnerability in the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server could allow a malicious individual to cause buffer overflow errors, leading …