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73% share online banking password

The vast majority of online banking customers reuse their login credentials to access non-financial and much less secure websites. Trusteer found that 73 percent of bank …

XSS vulnerability in Cisco Security Tools

Core Security issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that could affect large numbers of organizations using Cisco’s Secure Desktop security package and leave …

U.S. strategy for cyberwar and cyberterrorism

The Cyber Secure Institute published a whitepaper by Gen. Eugene Habiger USAF (ret.). who formerly served as Commander in Chief of United States Strategic Command. He also …

Man gets serious jail time for identity theft scheme

Martel T. Kirkland was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for conspiracy, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, credit card fraud, wire fraud, uttering a forged security, …

Beware of Chinese bearing gifts

UK businessmen have been warned by the British security service against using “gifts” such as memory sticks or cameras given to them when attending exhibitions or …

SecretBox: Keep your secrets safe

An alternative to 1Password, App4Mac’s SecretBox lets you store all sorts of information: credit card details, SSN numbers, software licenses, e-mail account details, …

Facebook tops the list of risky social networking sites

Social networks may represent one of the most common infection and data loss vectors today, but it’s patently obvious that they are here to stay. Looking at them from a …

Netgear releases new gateway security appliance

Netgear unveiled a new gateway security appliance – the ProSecure UTM5, which enables small companies to protect themselves using a wide array of defenses including …

Cloud computing not as safe as they want you to think

Cloud computing has been touted as the perfect solution for our increasingly mobile life-style – everything we need is always online and always accessible. The …

Multi-purpose fuzzer zzuf

zzuf is a transparent application input fuzzer. Its purpose is to find bugs in applications by corrupting their user-contributed data (which more than often comes from …

Rogue software details: WiniFixer

WiniFixer is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Files …

SecureCloud 2010: The future of cloud security

SecureCloud 2010 is a premier educational and networking event hosted by ENISA, the Cloud Security Alliance and ISACA, three of the leading organizations shaping the future of …

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