How prepared are federal agencies to deal with security threats?
There are distinct gaps among United States federal agency IT executives and IT professional staff when it comes to their opinion on how prepared their agencies are to deal …
Many teenagers hack and rarely get caught
A survey revealed the hacking habits of 1000 New York City teenagers. Exactly half (50%) of kids sampled revealed they’d had their Facebook or email account hacked, …
iPhone OS 4.0 security fear, uncertainty and doubt
It is inevitable. With every mainstream technology news, comes at least one security company that wants to piggyback on it and introduce themselves to the world by making …
Facebook revamps its Safety Center
Facebook launched a completely redesigned Safety Center with new resources designed to inform parents, educators, teens, and members of the law enforcement community about …
“Secure messages” from bank lead to phishing page
TrendLabs warns that Standard Chartered Bank clients are the targets of the latest batch of phishing emails that have been hitting inboxes: Notice how the scammers rely on the …
A third of Windows XP security solutions failed independent tests
The latest tests run by the independent security certification body Virus Bulletin saw one third of the evaluated anti-malware solutions for Windows XP fail to provide …
Secure card reader authentication for iPhone
MagTek launched iDynamo, a secure card reader authenticator, specifically designed to interface with card present payment applications made for the iPad, iPhone 3G and 3GS, …
Microsoft patches 25 vulnerabilities
In today’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft delivers 11 security bulletins to address 25 vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Office and Exchange. Five bulletins are rated …
15 vulnerabilities patched in Adobe Reader and Acrobat
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader 9.3.1 (and earlier versions) for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.1 (and earlier versions) for …
The lazy programmer’s guide to secure computing
This presentation starts with a simple block of code written by the Lazy Programmer, to observe how laziness made the code more compact and simpler. We then define the …
Apache.org hit by XSS, bruteforce attack
The Apache Software Foundation is the latest victim of a targeted attack aimed at its infrastructure – more specifically, at the SliceHost server (brutus.apache.org) …
Google’s priorities: Security and mobility
The future of computing is mobile. This statement has been repeated time and again by many people in the computer industry, and yesterday was Eric Schmidt’s turn to say …