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Following yesterday’s news about the Energizer DUO USB recharger that infects PCs with a Trojan, here is another piece of equipment whose software comes bundled with …

The relative easiness of setting up a mobile botnet of nearly 8,000 phones has been demonstrated by Derek Brown and Daniel Tijerina at this year’s edition of the RSA …

A highly critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting the Opera browser has been discovered by Marcin Ressel of Secunia: The vulnerability is caused due to an error when …

A serious vulnerability in Apache’s HTTP web server that enables the attacker to gain remote access to the server and total control of a database, has been discovered by …

The human factor is the weakest link of the security chain – this statement has been said and written so many times, that is starting to become a cliche’. Even so, …

Spear phishing aimed at high-value targets increases The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) released its Q4, 2009 Phishing Activity Trends Report, which reveals that eCrime …

The software that shows to which extent the battery is charged through the Energizer DUO USB recharger comes bundled up with a Trojan, says US CERT. The installer file for the …

The renowned Facebook co-founder has been accused three years ago of stealing the source code and the business plan for the social network from some Harvard colleagues and for …

Legal sites are often compromised and used as a stepping stone through which the user is taken to a malicious site. The latest of this kind of schemes has seen a string of …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Severe IE vulnerability threatens Windows XP users News of a …

Brocade’s “man-on-the-street” survey at this week’s RSA conference in San Francisco, revealed that 47 percent of respondents believe their network …

Here’s a glance at the RSA Conference 2009 expo floor. The featured companies are: Entrust, SmartSwipe, Lumension, M86 Security, BlackBerry and Blockmaster.