Facebook shows its true face
The F8 conference has ended, and Facebook has started making changes and setting the stage for the announced spread through the entire Internet. They might not put it like …
Tenable releases SecurityCenter 4
Tenable released SecurityCenter 4, the enterprise-class management console for Tenable’s Unified Security Monitoring suite of products. By centralizing system and event …
Snort 2.8.6 released
Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol …
iPad users with PCs threatened by backdoor malware
A malicious spam email campaign has been targeting iPad users who own PCs, says Bitdefender. The message is the following: The message claims that updates have been released …
CAPTCHA solving farms headed for extinction?
Most employees in developed countries usually balk at the idea of doing a repetitive task for 8 hours a day for a low pay, so outsourcing simple (but monotonous) jobs has been …
Insecure web applications greatest data threat
Most businesses, despite having numerous mission-critical applications accessible via their websites, fail to allocate sufficient financial and technical resources to secure …
Plenty of credit card fraud and identity theft
A survey of 1000 commuters in London has found that a tidal wave of credit card fraud and Identity theft is sweeping the UK as 44 % of people said they have suffered from …
Netgear ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall
Netgear announced the ProSafe Quad WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall (SRX5308), the first business firewall to provide in excess of 1 Gbps performance for under $500, which …
Splunk.com password leak
Splunk announced on their blog that they discovered the logging of users’ passwords in clear text. The culprit is debug code that found its way onto the www.splunk.com …
Organizations resist automated IT security processes
Organizations are investing to improve their security processes, but very few have automated their compliance procedures. This is one of the findings of a research report by …
Week in review: Facebook credentials for sale, Fake AV issues and rising security threats
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and podcasts: OWASP releases list of top 10 web application risks OWASP has released an …
Russian hacker offers 1.5m Facebook credentials for sale
What will Facebook do if the Russian hacker Kirllos’ claim that he has in his possession login credentials for 1.5 million Facebook accounts proves to be true? The …
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