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Twitter worm spreading malicious goo.gl links?

A new Twitter worm seems to be burrowing its way across the service, apparently forcing mobile Twitter users to retweet a goo.gl shortened link which they clicked on …

Cisco estimates huge shift to the cloud by 2013

Nearly 12 percent of enterprise workloads will run in the public cloud by the end of 2013, according to Cisco. Their study found that desktop applications, email, …

What’s in store for 2011? More scams and identity theft

Unemployment, economic uncertainty and the proliferation of technology will be factors in emerging types of fraud over the next year, according to the 2011 Identity Theft …

Security Factsheets: A new look at vulnerability data

Secunia today announced their Security Factsheets, designed for those who are interested in understanding the historical development of advisories and vulnerabilities in …

Search results for Mono Lake lead to malware

The recent discovery by NASA scientists of a bacteria that uses arsenic in its cellular structure has prompted a lot of people to search the Web for information about it and …

Minimizing virtualization risks

With its potential to reduce expenses, drive automation and provide flexibility, virtualization has earned its way onto the board agenda and is being implemented by …

First VoIP call from space

Cisco announced the results of the latest Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) testing, marking the first-ever software upgrade of an IP router aboard a commercial satellite while …

Secure your iPad with a lock

Since iPads have no security slot, it’s hard to protect them from theft. Mac Locks has solved this problem with the iPad Lock, the first and only iPad cable lock. The …

Fake Amazon receipt generator discovered

Above, you can see a vaguely optimistic VirusTotal user summary in relation to a file that’s been doing the rounds for about a month or two, according to GFI Software. …

Julian Assange arrested in London

WikiLeaks’ founder and director Julian Assange has been arrested this Tuesday morning at 9.30am (GMT) at a police station in London. According to a statement by the …

Snorby: Modern Snort IDS frontend

Snorby is a modern Snort IDS frontend. The basic fundamental concepts behind Snorby are simplicity and power. The project goal is to create a free, open source and highly …

Most businesses vulnerable to cache poisoning attacks

While DNSSEC adoption percentages appear to have increased dramatically by 340 percent this year, the actual number of zones that have been signed is very small: .02 percent, …

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