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Poisoned Google search results

Google has been and is very helpful – no doubt about it. But it seems to me that they should try to do something about the poisoned search results problem, otherwise …

World’s first wireless USB external hard drive

Imation announced its Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive that provides 1.5TB of storage. With a fast Wireless USB data transfer rate of up to 15MBs/second, the product can back up …

A look at Securitybyte & OWASP AppSec Asia Conference 2009

India’s largest security conference – Securitybyte & OWASP AppSec Asia Conference 2009 – closed its doors after a very successful four days. Help Net …

Biggest threats to federal systems and critical infrastructure

E-Government initiatives aimed at modernizing federal information systems are fraught with risk, according to a new study sponsored by CA and conducted by the Ponemon …

Are 64-bit Windows inherently safer?

Microsoft has discovered a way to create the illusion that Windows 7 is more secure than its predecessors simply because it has a 64-bit version of the OS. As Joe Faulhaber of …

NSA on cyber attacks and Microsoft collaboration

Government Computer News reports that at a hearing entitled “Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace”, held two days ago …

New books: ModSecurity, Snow Leopard, social Web applications

ModSecurity Handbook features an in-depth coverage of ModSecurity, an open source web application firewall. The main highlights are the following: Step-by-step instructions …

Vulnerability in IBM SolidDB memory caching software

Core Security disclosed a vulnerability that could affect large numbers of organizations using IBM’s SolidDB relational database management system, as well as those …

Two arrested for Zbot Trojan

Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have made Europe’s first arrests in the battle against the ZeuS or Zbot Trojan which threatened …

Employee data breach at MassMutual

Internetnews reports that the latest data breach to be discovered happened to MassMutual, a Massachussets-based insurance company. One of the company’s employees …

Cyber criminals worked furiously in 2009

Symantec’s Security Responce team took it upon itself to gather information from various sources and thousands of experts and compile a list of threats that marred the …

Gumblar is back with a vengeance

ScanSafe reported that 29% of all Web malware blocks in October 2009 were the result of Gumblar. This series of website compromises, collectively dubbed “Gumblar” …

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