Facebook battles likejacking scammers

Facebook battles likejacking scammers


Facebook battles likejacking scammers

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 09:54 AM PDT

Facebook and its users have been plagued for a while now by a seemingly never ending steady stream of scams, among which are those that hijack users' "likes" in order to spread the word about the sche...

Vulnerabilities in common web applications escalate

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 09:28 AM PDT

A new Cenzic report reveals widespread Web application vulnerabilities, with 2,155 discovered - a third of which have both no known solution and an exploit code publicly available. The report als...

Massive SQL injection attack compromises 380,000 URLs

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:09 AM PDT

A massive SQL injection attack campaign has been spotted by Websense researchers, and the number of unique URLs affected by it has risen from 28,000 when first detected yesterday, to 380,000 when the ...

IEEE database breached, personal info compromised

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:56 AM PDT

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has notified the Attorney General of New Hampshire, the FBI and 828 of its members that a file containing the names, credit card numbers, e...

Cybercriminals and their favorite baits

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:39 AM PDT

According to PandaLabs research, 25 percent of sites used video and multimedia content as bait; 21.63 percent referred to installers or program updates; 16.53 percent claimed to contain cracks and key...

Half of U.S. tax payers are unaware about identity theft risks

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:27 AM PDT

While consumers take steps to protect themselves against identity theft and remain concerned about the possibility of a data breach when sharing their personal information, they remain uneducated abou...

Vulnerabilities surge: 8,000 recorded in 2010

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:51 AM PDT

IBM today released results from its annual X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk Report, highlighting that public and private organizations around the world faced increasingly sophisticated, customized IT secur...

Key security experts unfamiliar with DNSSEC

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:31 AM PDT

Half of IT personnel in charge of Internet security at the world's largest organizations either haven't heard of DNSSEC or have limited familiarity with it, according to IID. Those who do understan...

Tips for protecting against advanced evasion techniques

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:11 PM PDT

By challenging the rules of traditional evasion techniques and combining multiple evasions, AETs are currently unable to be detected by existing network security systems. Ted Julian, principal anal...

Application control within virtual environments

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:08 PM PDT

Sourcefire announced integration between Sourcefire and VMware vShield App and vShield Edge. The integrations enable the Sourcefire Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to configure VMware vShield App or...

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