Facebook cut down large-scale phishing with social authentication

Facebook cut down large-scale phishing with social authentication


Facebook cut down large-scale phishing with social authentication

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 10:43 AM PST

Facebook, with its 845+ million users and some 1.1 billion daily login attempts, works on improving its authentication process all the time as many of these login attempts are from phishers or brute-f...

Chrome already pwned twice at CanSecWest

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 09:03 AM PST

The annual CanSecWest conference opened on Wednesday in Vancouver, and before the first session even started, Google's Chrome was exploited successfully not once, but twice. The first hit was made ...

Apple iOS 5.1 released, updates security

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 07:57 AM PST

Apple released the iOS 5.1 software update which comes with a variety of improvements and bug fixes. CFNetwork An issue existed in CFNetwork's handling of malformed URLs. When accessing a malici...

Anonymous takes down Vatican websites

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 06:53 AM PST

The Italian offshoot of Anonymous has managed to take down for a few hours on Wednesday Vatican's official website (vatican.va) and several more belonging to the Catholic Church, reported AFP. Even...

Cisco updates its Unified Computing System

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 06:26 AM PST

IT organizations today are striving to establish data centers that support virtualization and cloud computing to become more competitive and agile, reduce the cost of physical infrastructure, and supp...

Scareware hides files and folders, offers fix for $80

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 05:43 AM PST

BitDefender researchers have recently come across a nasty piece of scareware that tricks victims into believing that all their files and folders have disappeared due to hard disk issues and urges them...

GFI WebMonitor 2012 released

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:13 AM PST

GFI Software announced GFI WebMonitor 2012, with an array of new features – including a new user interface, "smart" dashboards, a built-in reporting engine and real-time alerts – that make all the dat...

Demonstrators targeted with destructive malware

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 03:52 AM PST

A spam campaign carrying an unusual payload has been recently spotted targeting Russian users that are not satisfied with Vladimir Putin becoming once again the President of the country. The emails...

ElcomSoft adds AMD Radeon 7000 Series support

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:40 AM PST

ElcomSoft updated its Phone Password Breaker and Wireless Security Auditor with OpenCL support, adding support for the latest AMD Radeon Graphics and ensuring universal acceleration hardware compatibi...

CompTIA Security+ SY0-301 Authorized Cert Guide, 2nd Edition

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:23 AM PST

Learn, prepare, and practice for CompTIA Security+ SY0-301 exam success with this CompTIA Authorized Cert Guide from Pearson IT Certification, a leader in IT Certification learning and a CompTIA Autho...

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