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The latest State of the Internet 2009 report by CA states that the most notable 2009 online threats were rogue/fake security software, major search engines, social networks …

The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration …

A large scale SQL injection attack has injected a malicious iframe on tens of thousands of susceptible websites. ScanSafe reports that the injected iframe loads malicious …

There is a new variant of the Zeus/Zbot Trojan out there that takes advantage of Amazon’s EC2 services for command and control purposes of the botnet. CA’s threat …

Snort Alert Monitor works in conjunction with Snort and provides much better reporting and real-time statistics that aren’t available with Snort alone. New in Snort …

According to the Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report, small errors on the part of computer users or their IT departments may not wreak havoc on their own, but in combination, …

iptables is the userspace command line program used to configure the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x IPv4 packet filtering ruleset. It is targeted towards system administrators. …

Red Condor issued a warning about a new e-Card spam campaign that appears to come from American Greetings’ BlueMountain.com. The email, with the subject line “You …

Trend Micro released a report titled “The Future of Threats and Threat Technologies”, in which they analyzed the current situation and made some predictions for …

Every day, approximately 89.5 billion unsolicited messages (i.e. spam) are sent by computers that have been compromised and are part of a botnet. Botnets – apart from …

ISACA released Risk IT, the first global IT-related risk framework to provide a comprehensive view of the business risks associated with IT initiatives. Available as a free …

The latest in the Data Breach Investigations Report series by Verizon Business security experts provide a look at the 15 most common security attacks and how they typically …