FBI in the market for app to monitor social networks

FBI in the market for app to monitor social networks


FBI in the market for app to monitor social networks

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 06:00 AM PST

The US FBI is looking into the possibility of using an "Open Source and social media alert, mapping, and analysis application" for increasing its situational awareness, and to that effect has issued a...

Facebook scammers leverage the Amazon Cloud

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 05:15 AM PST

Survey scams have been targeting Facebook users for longer that they would wish. The goal of all of them has always been to make users fill out survey, but the lures and methods for serving the conten...

Perplexing malware served on social welfare site

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:04 AM PST

Legitimate compromised sites usually serve malware that directly or indirectly makes money for its peddlers, but ever now and then an exception to that rule arises. Microsoft's researchers have rec...

Unwanted apps on Android smartphones

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:02 AM PST

Third-party Android markets have always been the favorite means of malicious app dissemination, especially in regions like Asia, where users don't have access to the official repository. This is al...

Protect sensitive data on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST

CoSoSys released EasyLock 2, their portable data protection solution. The enhanced new version offers full support for cross platform encryption between Windows, Mac OS X and Linux openSUSE and Ubuntu...

A peek into the Sykipot campaigns

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:39 AM PST

The group(s) behind the massive and consistent campaigns targeting US defense contractors with the Sykipot Trojan continue their attacks unabated, reports Symantec. Its researchers have recently di...

Multi-cloud security groups

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:18 AM PST

Dome9 Security added a new capability called Dome9 Security Groups - group-based firewall policy management - to its leading cloud security management service. This new functionality consolidates secu...

Software platform for security in industrial control systems

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:27 AM PST

Industrial Defender announced its new software product purpose-built for operators of automation systems, including NERC CIP-affected power utilities. Industrial Defender Automation Systems Manager...

Protecting Mac OS X from privacy threats

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:01 AM PST

SecureMac.com released PrivacyScan, a utility designed for people who value privacy and want to keep their online and offline experiences private. Every time you surf the web or use your computer...

Ubuntu Unleashed 2012 Edition

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:03 AM PST

Ubuntu Unleashed is filled with unique and advanced information for everyone who wants to make the most of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated b...

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