Improvements to Google’s privacy policies
Following an audit at Google’s London office, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) believes Google has taken reasonable steps to improve its privacy …
Internet bad neighborhoods
A significant part of current attacks on the Internet comes from compromised hosts that, usually, take part in botnets. Even though bots themselves can be distributed all over …
Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals
Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals provides you with a guide to digital technology forensics in plain English. In the authors’ years of experience in working with …
New module for Metasploit Framework
SecureState released a new auxiliary module for the Metasploit Framework that can reduce the amount of time that it takes to visually fingerprint large amounts of web servers. …
New way of mobile security policy enforcement
AirPatrol unveiled ZoneDefense, a new mobile monitoring and policy enforcement technology that lets enterprises support the use of consumer and mobile devices on premises …
SpyEye source code and crack for the toolkit leaked
Three months after Zeus’ source code has been spotted being sold for small amounts on underground online markets, Xyliton – a French security researcher and member …
IE 9 best option against Web-based malware attacks
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 has proved once again to be the best choice when it comes to catching attacks aimed at making the user download Web-based malware. This …
500% increase in email-attached malware
The UPS name is once again being used to spread vast amounts of email-attached malware. The last week has seen an extraordinary increase – over 5.5 times the average …
Adobe acknowledges the 80 Flash Player bugs found by Google
Following Adobe’s latest release of patches for a number of its products, a discussion was started by Google researcher Tavis Ormandy who claimed that he himself has …
Cybercrime on social networks continues to climb
With malware showing no signs of abating on social networks and continuous news of the privacy implications of sharing personal details through social media, it’s no …
Search engine hack innovation
Attackers are increasingly leveraging the power of search engines, like Google, to successfully carry out automated cyber attacks against vulnerable websites, according to …
Vulnerability in TimThumb WordPress plugins: The effects
With the popularity of the WordPress blogging platform, security researchers here at Websense Security Labs are sure to sit up and take note of any reported zero-day threats …