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52 percent of new viruses only last 24 hours

Every day, PandaLabs receives nearly 37,000 samples of new viruses, worms, Trojans and other types of Internet threats, 52 percent of which (that is 19,240 on average) spread …

Why are criminals targeting Facebook and other social networking sites?

The hugely popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have become attractive targets for phishing and scamming attacks as online criminals follow the latest …

WordPress 2.8.4 fixes annoying vulnerability

Recently, a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a …

69% of Australian organizations hit by a data breach within the last 12 months

The 2009 Annual Study: Australian Enterprise Encryption Trends by The Ponemon Institute, which polled IT security professionals at 482 enterprises, found that 69% of …

New book: “The Myths of Security”

If you think computer security has improved in recent years, The Myths of Security will shake you out of your complacency. Longtime security professional John Viega, formerly …

New Cisco CCNA Security course

Security and risk-management skills are among the most sought-after skills in networking, and global demand continues to grow. Organizations around the world are experiencing …

Mac OS X DNS-changing Trojan detected

According to a report by Trend Micro, there is a yet another Trojan targeting Mac machines in the wild. It’s a DNS-changing Trojan posing as a QuickTime Player update, …

Safari 4.0.3 released

Apple updated Safari to version 4.0.3 and it’s available as a direct download or via Software Update. This update is includes improvements to stability, compatibility …

Twitter under attack again

Not even a week ago, Twitter was under a vast Denial of Service attack. Today the massively popular service experienced another outage and traffic is being analyzed in order …

Video: The July 2009 threat webscape

This July we saw a few examples of high-profile Web sites that were compromised with malicious code. July was as a huge month for zero-day attacks and critical …

Microsoft releases August security bulletins

It’s time for a summer Patch Tuesday and Microsoft delivers a variety of patches that fix vulnerabilities targeting Windows, Visual Studio, ISA Server, BizTalk Server …

CompTIA A+ certification exams updated

CompTIA announced today an update to its certification CompTIA A+ with new content that reflects changing job requirements for tech support workers. Approximately 725,000 …

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