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Novell Identity Manager 4 released

Novell released their Identity Manager 4 Advanced Edition which ensures consistent identity, security and compliance policies for an organization’s entire IT ecosystem. …

The rise of Java exploits

Sifting through the data collected and analyzed in order to compile the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, senior program manager Holly Stewart came to an …

Metasploit Pro released

Rapid7 released Metasploit Pro which improves the efficiency of penetration testers by providing unrestricted remote network access and enabling teams to collaborate …

Kaspersky download site hacked, redirecting users to fake AV

Kaspersky’s USA download site was hacked. For three and a half hours on Sunday, it has been providing download links that redirected users to a malicious web page where …

Assange runs into more problems in Sweden

Julian Assange has been denied a Swedish residence and work permit. As one of the founders and the editor-in-chief of whistleblower site Wikileaks, Assange applied for the …

Bogus Adobe employees sell fake PDF program

A series of e-mails purportedly sent by Adobe Acrobat Reader Support employees in which the users are urged to activate their “new Adobe PDF Reader” have been …

Suspected money mule arrested in London

Members of the Police Central e-crime Unit arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of organizing money mules to open drop accounts in order to launder the proceeds of online …

Skimming attacks at European ATMs rise 24%

The latest European ATM Crime Report published by EAST (the European ATM Security Team), shows a 24% increase in card skimming attacks at European ATMs. 5,743 attacks were …

Phishing tax refund sites pop up in wake of deadline extension

Phishers taking advantage of the extended deadline for Indian taxpayers to file their income tax have cleverly thought of a way to trick customers of various banks with the …

Tool to test regular expressions for DoS vulnerabilities

Regular expression patterns containing certain clauses that execute in exponential time (for example, grouping clauses containing repetition that are themselves repeated) can …

Accelerate patching progress in the enterprise

At RSA Conference 2010 Europe last week, Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek gave a presentation on how to accelerate the patching progress in the enterprise. It contains example of …

Facebook apps send user information to ad agencies

Some five months ago, news broke that social networks were sending users’ ID numbers and/or names to advertising agencies every time the users click on the ads, by way …

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