Elaborate Identity theft scheme targets a million consumers
A federal court has halted an elaborate international scheme that used identity theft to place more than $10 million in bogus charges on consumers’ credit and debit …
World’s first 3 terabyte external desktop drive
Seagate announced the world’s first 3 Terabyte (TB) external desktop drive. Available immediately, the 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk external hard drive which can store up …
Honeypot software for VoIP networks
Artemisa is an open source VoIP/SIP-specific honeypot software designed to connect to a VoIP enterprise domain as a user-agent backend in order to detect malicious activity at …
Cyber criminals steal almost $400,000 using a Trojan
A few months ago, a small escrow firm from California was targeted by cyber criminals that managed to transfer almost $400,000 from the firm’s bank account to a number …
Web protection from the cloud
McAfee released SaaS Web Protection. The new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Web security solution combines the reporting capabilities and features from McAfee solutions with the …
Sentrigo expands Repscan with DB2 and MySQL support
Sentrigo released version 3.5 of Repscan, the vulnerability assessment and security scanning solution that now supports all of the most widely deployed DMBS platforms …
Protection for the Android platform
F-Secure Mobile Security 6 on the Android platform has been released. It provides security for smartphones against malicious software and also safeguards confidential data …
YouTube used to peddle a Facebook password stealer
As chance would have it, today is the day when we shine the spotlight on YouTube being used to peddle malicious software. First, we had the showcasing of the capabilities of a …
IEEE delivers critical 1815 DNP3 standard
IEEE announced the ratification of its IEEE 1815 Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3) standard for electric power systems communications. The new standard, which improves …
The longevity of computer worms
Viruses, Trojans, worms. They all enjoy a (sometimes brief, sometimes long) period within which the are at the peak of their game – so to speak – but that period …
YouTube used to showcase DDoS software
Legitimate businesses use all that the Internet offers to make their sales go up. And even though the use of social media tools can affect office productivity and be an entry …
Parallels Server for Mac 4 released
Recently released, Parallels Server for Mac 4 is optimized for Mac OS X server bringing reliability and scale to Apple environments. It consolidates multiple operating systems …