Info on the Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference 2007
Expanding interest in technologies that can enable fast, secure transactions of all types are driving smart card applications into many market sectors and opening up …
Almost 90% of mail received by companies in August was spam
According to data compiled by TrustLayer Mail, the managed security service from Panda Security, 87.49 percent of email that reached companies in August was spam. This data …
Increasing use of encryption and growing need for centralized automated key management
The greatly increased adoption of the use of encryption is driving the need for centralized and automated key management solutions – this is the finding of a new survey …
Free cross site scripting security scanner
Acunetix today launched a free edition of its popular web vulnerability scanner, which allows companies to check for cross site scripting vulnerabilities in their websites at …
Exploit auction company WabiSabiLabi speaks out at HITBSecConf2007
Roberto Preatoni, WabiSabiLabi’s Strategic Director (and founder of Zone-H defacement mirror) will hold a presentation entitled “WabiSabiLabi – The Exploit …
Video – how to build a laser espionage microphone
Update (February 2016): Multimedia file removed, as it was using Adobe Flash.
August a dead season for virus epidemics
August once again turned out to be “dead season” for virus epidemics in 2007. Since August 2003, when the Lovesan worm caused the biggest epidemic in history, the …
Malicious toolbars top the list of most common malware
Panda Security informs that almost 28 percent of computers with installed protection scanned at the Infected or Not website (http://www.infectedornot.com) last week were …
Company wins important ruling for the anti-malware industry
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that the United States District Court of Washington ruled in favor of Kaspersky Lab, …
Weekly malware report: MSN Messenger and IRC worms
The most important malware samples analyzed by PandaLabs this week are the MSNHorn.A and Nugache.M worms, and the Legmir.ASG Trojan. MSNHorn.A spreads through MSN Messenger by …
Rihanna and Kelly Clarkson video emails spread a trojan horse
Sophos is warning internet users about the latest disguise being used by malware authors in their attempt to infect people’s PCs – an email claiming to point to …
Searching for evil
Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics, psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will describe one thread of …