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 …
Fake Twitter homepages serving malware
A number of bogus Twitter main pages have been popping up and are offering misdirected users a chance to see naked ladies and to download malicious applications, Sunbelt …
Nuclear site’s operation details found on lost USB stick?
Reports are coming in that an unencrypted USB stick – apparently containing details on the Sellafield nuclear site’s operations – was found by a coach driver …
78% of organizations experienced downtime due to mismanaged encryption
Encryption key and digital certificate inventories are rising, according to a study by Venafi. Poorly managed encryption leads to system downtime, non-compliance and audit …
Adobe to release more secure PDF reader
Adobe is announcing the new Acrobat X Family of Products which includes Adobe Reader X as well as Acrobat X Suite, Acrobat X Pro, and Acrobat X Standard. Reader X is the only …
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