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Cybersecurity risk management application for industrial control systems

Citicus has launched Citicus ICS, a new application to manage industrial process control risk. This enables organizations to identify and manage risks to SCADA and other …

Combat wire transfer fraud

The spread of internet malware and key logging software has led to an increase in sophisticated wire fraud schemes targeting customers of community financial institutions. In …

Apple Safari 5.1 increases security

Safari 5.1 includes improvements to performance, stability, and security. CFNetwork In certain situations, Safari may treat a file as HTML, even if it is served with the …

Deep Freeze Mac 5.0 released

Faronics released the newest version of its system-restore software, Deep Freeze Mac 5.0, to coincide with the launch of Mac OS X Lion. Deep Freeze Mac removes any …

Enhanced phishing methods on the rise

There’s been an increase in targeted and combined email-based threats, a new twist in phishing attacks, and an escalation in social engineering scams through popular …

Joomla 1.7.0 security release

Joomla 1.7.0. This is a security release. This is also the first release made within the new six-month release cycle that started with the delivery of Joomla 1.6 in January …

Guide for the Secure Software Development Lifecycle

(ISC)2 released of the “Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CSSLP“, a textbook that serves as the only official guide to the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle …

Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net

It’s been 25 years since the first PC virus (Brain A) hit the net, and what was once an annoyance has become a sophisticated tool for crime and espionage. Computer …

DDoS bot masquerades as Java update

An especially virulent Trojan variant with DDoS capabilities has been spotted masquerading as a regular Java update and is being served both from legitimate and malicious …

Security recommendations to prevent cyber intrusions

Cyber thieves, hacktivists, pranksters, nation-states, and malicious coders for hire all pose serious threats to the security of both government and private sector networks. A …

Internet activist charged with hacking, theft of millions of digital documents

24-year-old Aaron Swartz, renowned programmer and Internet activist, stands accused of having stolen over 4 million digital documents from MIT’s JSTOR archive with the …

Apple releases Mac OS X Lion

Apple released Mac OS X Lion (v10.7), which takes some of the best ideas from iPad and brings them back to the Mac. Security-wise, Lion brings an improvement to Address space …

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