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Article | 19/03/2011 The RSA Hack FAQ

In the aftermath of RSA saying that its SecureID two-factor authentication tokens may have been compromised in a data breach of the company's network,...

Article | 9/03/2011 PDF files most trusted...and most targeted

PDF files are one of the most common, and most trusted document formats out there. However, that trust, combined with the cross-platform use of PDFs m...

Article | 25/01/2011 Top 10 Web hacking techniques of 2010 revealed

A Web hack that can endanger online banking transactions is ranked the No. 1 new Web hacking technique for 2010 in a top 10 list selected by a panel o...

Article | 19/01/2011 Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad

It's a CIO's worst nightmare: You get a call from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), saying that some of the Microsoft software your company uses m...

Article | 19/01/2011 ClamAV promises free antivirus app for businesses

Most of us don't like paying for antivirus (AV) software, but at least home users can rely on one of the free options, such as Microsoft Security Esse...

Article | 14/01/2011 Is Android less secure than iPhone? Um, no.

One can only hope that security software provider Trend Micro saw a nice sales boost after the proclamation of its chairman earlier this week that And...

Article | 12/01/2011 Patch Tuesday defined by the flaws that aren't fixed

Microsoft is easing in to 2011 with a light Patch Tuesday for January. There are only two security bulletins this month, and only one of those two is ...

Article | 11/01/2011 Top 10 tech scares of the decade

The dawn of the new millennium prompted fears about the future, but so far reality has not quite matched the predictions of catastrophe. The first ten...

Article | 8/01/2011 Text message of 'death' threatens smartphone security

Security researchers have shown that carefully crafted text messages sent to cell phones via short message service (SMS) can cause them to shutdown wi...

Article | 5/01/2011 The day of the password is done

When the popular Web site Gawker was hacked into recently, more than a million user IDs and passwords were released. If you were one of the people com...

Article | 30/11/2010 Free vs. fee: Free, paid antivirus programs

Depending on whom you ask, paying for antivirus software is either a good investment or a total ripoff. In reality, neither viewpoint is accurate. Yo...

Article | 14/12/2010 Goodbye Internet, we hardly knew ye?

This end-of-year article is a looking forward one -- looking forward to a year in which the Internet will be under a multi-pronged attack that threate...

Article | 11/12/2010 Something Wiki this way comes

It's been All WikiLeaks, All the Time here in Cringeville lately. And why not? As I noted last time out, this is the biggest thing to hit the WebberNe...

Article | 10/12/2010 Sydney rally backs WikiLeaks

Sydney supporters of WikiLeaks this afternoon rallied at Town Hall Square to demand the Australian government condemn Julian Assange's arrest.

Article | 9/12/2010 WikiLeaks: A case study in Web survivability

In recent weeks WikiLeaks has been targeted by denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, had its hosting service shutdown, been bounced off of Amazon hosting, ...

Article | 12/11/2010 Massive Mac OS X update shatters illusion of security

Perhaps you've heard that the Apple Mac OS X operating system is simply more secure by design and not prone to the security flaws and vulnerabilities ...

Article | 13/09/2010 Things you might not know about Facebook

Facebook has been in the media spotlight this year over privacy concerns, thanks in part cases such as the horrific murder of Sydney teenager Nona Bel...

Article | 25/08/2010 Chrome patches show the power of open source--and Google

Google's patching of vulnerabilities in its open source Chrome Web browser last week wasn't so much notable in itself; Microsoft, to be sure, is forev...

Article | 14/08/2010 Mobile apps security: Apple iOS v. Google Android

The Apple iOS, which runs on its iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, has a flaw in how it reads PDF documents that makes it easier to hack. This flaw is exp...

Article | 12/08/2010 12 top spy gadgets

Spies are everywhere these days, from the 10 Russians nabbed in the United States to Angelina Jolie