News about royal engagement leads to malware
Taking advantage of the long awaited news of the engagement of Prince William of England to his long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton, malware pushers have hopped immediately on …
10 security tips for retailers
While analysts are cautiously optimistic about this year’s holiday retail outlook, retailers need to take steps to prevent shoplifters or a dishonest employee from …
Stuxnet analysis points to a specific target
Some two months since the discovery of the Stuxnet worm made headlines and started speculations on who is behind it, Symantec‘s researchers have unearthed another piece …
LinkedIn attack comprised over 31% of all spam
Enterprise users experienced an average of 133 Web malware encounters per month, peaking at over 140 during the month of August, according to Cisco. Approximately 10% of Web …
Toolkit to implement and assess cloud security
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced the free download of the CSA Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) Stack, a suite of enabling tools for GRC in the …
Adobe patches Reader and Acrobat
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader 9.4 (and earlier versions) for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat 9.4 (and earlier 9.x versions) for …
Security implications of new Facebook e-mail service
Facebook has announced its new email service which brings together Facebook messages, instant messaging chat and SMS messages in one place. “Before signing up, users …
Two thirds of Internet users have fallen victim to cybercrime
When reading about instances of cybercrime, we often get caught in the numbers and think about the details of a particular attack or exploitation of a technology, and actually …
50 ISPs harbor half of all infected machines worldwide
As the classic method of combating botnets by taking down command and control centers has proven pretty much ineffective in the long run, there has been lots of talk lately …
GFI LANguard 9.6 released
GFI Software released GFI LANguard 9.6, the first network security solution to automate missing patch detection and remediation for the top five Web browsers running on …
Web users deceived into downloading malicious anti-virus software
Organized criminal gangs are exploiting security-conscious internet users by tricking them into downloading and paying for anti-virus protection which is actually malicious …
The 12 most dangerous online scams
Consumers would be wise to beware of the most common scams of the season before heading online to book travel and do holiday shopping. McAfee revealed the 12 most dangerous …
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