Paid security solution still seen as a waste
Over the past years, Brazil experienced an exponential increase in both quantity and complexity of virtual attacks and spam. However, only 14.2% of Brazilians with Internet …
IDrive for WordPress: Plugin for automated backups
IDrive for WordPress is a simple plugin that lets you create an account on the fly, do an immediate backup and schedule automated daily backups for your WordPress files and …
Week in review: Microsoft and Adobe flaws, SQL injection attack, Wikileaks
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Critical Adobe Flash, Reader 0-day flaw exploited in the wild Adobe released the …
0-day Windows flaw published by Google researcher
Tavis Ormandy – the well-known Google security researcher who discovered the feature/vulnerability in Java back in April and forced Sun to patch it up swiftly by …
Adobe patches critical Flash flaw
Adobe released a security bulletin revealing the 32 vulnerabilities that it has patched with the release of Flash 10.1(.53.64). Among those is the critical 0-day flaw that has …
Gartner: Enterprises will reduce the share of security in their IT budgets
While security risks are not going away for companies, efficient and secure enterprises will actually safely reduce the share of security spending by 3 to 6 percent of their …
IRISS Conference 2010 call for papers
IRISS will hold its first annual conference on the 18th of November 2010. This all day conference will focus on providing you with an overview of the current cyber threats …
Two Mexican botnets taken down
A week ago, Trend Micro was alerted to a phishing attack that was aimed at Spanish-speaking users and was discovered to be originating from a Mexican botnet. The attack was …
Early life cycle security assessment service
HP announced Comprehensive Applications Threat Analysis, a new security service to help companies reduce vulnerabilities at the onset of the application development life cycle …
Mass SQL injection attack compromises IIS/ASP sites
Thousands of websites and who knows how many visitors were affected by the recently discovered mass SQL injection attack that targeted – among others – The Wall …
Beware when placing online bets during the World Cup
With the World Cup approaching, online players all over the world are preparing to place their bets on the different soccer games. Taking security issues into account and …
iPhone security showcase: SafeWallet – Password Manager
Mobile software producer SBSH this week released a new version of SafeWallet – Password Manager, an application used for storing private information on your iPhone and …