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Discover security flaws in source code with Graudit

Graudit is a simple script and signature sets that allows you to find potential security flaws in source code using the GNU utility grep. Graudit supports scanning code …

Christmas spam starts early this year

It seems that retailers are not the only ones to have hurried up with getting advantage of Christmas as a magic, profit-enhancing word. Spammers are know for their heightened …

Find potential exploit conditions in Microsoft Office documents

OfficeCat is a command line utility developed by the Sourcefire VRT that can be used to process Microsoft Office Documents to determine the presence of potential exploit …

Trojans dominate BitDefender’s top 10 e-threats list

The top spot on BitDefender’s top 10 e-threats list for October is once again Trojan.Clicker.CM, which is mostly present on websites hosting illegal applications such as …

Top causes of identity fraud

Identity fraud increased substantially in 2008, reversing a four-year trend of decreasing incidents. Researchers say identity fraud increased by 22 percent last year and they …

Facebook spamming practices revealed

Dennis Yu, the CEO of BlitzLocal, was a guest yesterday on TechCrunch, and he shared his thoughts and knowledge about Facebook spamming and advertising. BlitzLocal is an …

Global security best practices

The latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shares security best practices from countries that have consistently exhibited low malware infection. These best practices …

Worm infections in the enterprise rose by nearly 100%

The latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7), which indicates that worm infections in the enterprise rose by nearly 100 percent during the first half of 2009 over …

Convicted social networks “hacker” commits suicide

StudiVZ, a social network for students based in Berlin and the German answer to (and clone of) Facebook, has been hit by unpleasant news. TechCrunch Europe reports that the …

Woman fired as a result of error in FBI criminal database

Ages ago when I first saw “The Net”, an action thriller featuring Sandra Bullock as a computer expert whose life gets turned upside down by hackers who have access …

Record levels of spam, malware and Web-based threats

The number of new file-sharing sites hosting unauthorized, copyrighted content skyrocketed over the last three months, according to McAfee’s latest report. It also shows …

Week in review: Malicious email attachments, phishing trends, China’s cyber army and Halloween attacks

Here is an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Q&A: Malware threats, Windows 7 and cyber crime Bo Olsen is a malware …

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