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Permanent Stakeholders’ Group of top security advisors appointed

As of today, a new composition of 30 top security experts start their term of office as members of the Permanent Stakeholders’ Group (PSG), giving advice to the …

Security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader 9.3 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3 for Windows and Macintosh, and Adobe Reader 8.2 and Acrobat …

Top 25 most dangerous programming errors

Based primarily on the CWE List and leveraging the SANS Top 20 attack vectors, the main goal of the Top 25 list is to stop vulnerabilities at the source by educating …

CORE IMPACT Pro integrates with Metasploit Project

Core Security Technologies has created a fully supported technical integration between CORE IMPACT Pro and the Metasploit open-source exploit framework. Through the …

Facebook users targeted by fake AV

Facebook users are once again in danger of getting their computers compromised as a new spamming campaign urging them to update their account agreement is currently under way. …

Malware cause of Blue Screens of Death following latest patch?

It seems that the problems that some Windows users have been experiencing lately after installing the February security updates from Microsoft are due to malware on the …

Government email addresses targeted by Zeus variant

The National Intelligence Council is the purported sender of emails in a spam campaign that is targeting exclusively .gov and .mil addresses, with the goal of making the …

US cyclist Floyd Landis wanted for hacking

Remember when back in 2006 U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis won the Tour de France, only to be stripped of the victory and banned from competing for two years after testing positive …

Secure Internet browser: Comodo Dragon

Comodo released its new Internet browser, the free Comodo Dragon which is constructed on the open source Chromium Project browser. Dragon’s enhancements increase …

Shell’s employee database breached: 170,000 records compromised

Oil giant Shell was unpleasantly surprised when it received news of a database containing contact information of some 170,000 of their workers having been emailed to seven …

Fake hi5 invitation carries malware

TrendLabs warns about a malicious spam email campaign that supposedly comes from the popular social networking website and contains a message asking recipients to set up an …

Bank sued for not preventing online theft

Mirroring the lawsuit that a couple from California raised against the Bank of America, Comerica Bank is being sued by Experi-Metal Inc. (EMI), a manufacturing firm from …

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