Internet porn still main source of threats

Internet porn still main source of threats


Internet porn still main source of threats

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 11:52 AM PST

A significant 63% of the users attempting to find adult content on their computers compromised their computers' security on multiple occasions, according to BitDefender. The study consisted of a su...

"Guy kills girlfriend" Facebook scam

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:37 AM PST

The latest Facebook scam counts on sheer morbid curiosity: According to Naked Security, variations of the same scam have been spotted propagating during the last few days and - predictably - the ...

The vulnerability species: Origin and evolution

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:45 AM PST

There is an on-going arms-race in the IT security industry between vendors striving to produce secure software, and researchers' and cybercriminals' efforts (and successes) in finding new vulnerabilit...

Cain & Abel 4.9.37 released

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:42 AM PST

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary ...

Android malware records and steals credit card numbers from phone conversations

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:36 AM PST

We often blame users for failing to deny permissions required by malicious applications on Facebook or various mobile platforms, but the truth is that the list of permissions is not necessarily an ind...

Tide turns for US employee privacy?

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 05:40 AM PST

The issue of consumer privacy is getting more and more attention from media and people in general, as it rightly should. But what about employee privacy? When it comes to the US workforce, the tr...

Lush hack due to numerous security vulnerabilities

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 04:31 AM PST

The Web site of Lush, the natural ingredients cosmetic firm, has reportedly been cracked and subverted by attackers, with reports that customers' bank details have already used by fraudsters. Lush ...

WatchGuard XCS gains spam blocking and encryption capabilities

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 03:22 AM PST

WatchGuard released a free update to its XCS (extensible content security) line of email and web content security appliances that includes new features to make stopping spam even easier along with new...

OpenSSH 5.7 released

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 01:39 AM PST

OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. It encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate e...

Week in review: Cybercriminals moving away from Windows and Facebook privacy

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 01:37 AM PST

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Dating site creates profiles based on information scraped online Various publicly available information regarding al...

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