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Article | 6/10/2011
Webroot claims the fastest, lightest, most powerful anti-virus software yet with SecureAnywhere
Security and antivirus software vendor Webroot has thrown the proverbial gauntlet down to its competitors with the launch of its new consumer-level pr...
Article | 7/08/2011
Three tips for a better Anonymous
Has the Anonymous movement reached a midlife crisis?
Article | 6/08/2011
Free Firefox Tool Fights Search Hijacking
A free tool for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that can counter search hijacking on computer networks in the United States has been released by the E...
Article | 6/08/2011
Bugs and Fixes: MS Fixes Serious Bluetooth Vulnerability
What's new in the land of security fixes? Over the last couple weeks, Apple released a fix to iOS, Google updated Chrome, and Skype patched a nasty se...
Article | 5/08/2011
A power plant hack that anybody could use
The night before the start of this week's Black Hat hacker conference here in Las Vegas, security researcher Dillon Beresford gave a demonstration to ...
Article | 4/08/2011
Metasploit 4.0 sets the stage for mass penetration testing
Security product provider Rapid7 has updated its widely used open-source Metasploit exploitation framework, expanding the software so it supports ente...
Article | 22/07/2011
Anonymous releases restricted NATO document
The hacking collective Anonymous released a document on Thursday marked "restricted" from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Article | 30/06/2011
As the Internet evolves, is there a place for spam?
In the late 1990s Robert Soloway made US$20,000 a day as a spammer. He drove fancy cars. He wore Armani clothes. He was, by all accounts, one of the m...
Article | 28/06/2011
Anonymous Picks up Slack as LulzSec Calls it Quits
Hacking season is not over yet. Even though LulzSec, the group of hackers who made a name for themselves by hacking Sony, Nintendo, and <a href="http...
Article | 28/06/2011
Apple warned of phishing attack threat to iPhone, iPad and Mac OS developers
Apple's website for Mac OS X, iPhone and iPad developers has a vulnerability that could lead to phishing attacks, according to a hacker group.
Article | 27/06/2011
LulzSec Says Goodbye With New Data Dump
<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/231198/lulzsec_calls_it_quits_after_50_days_of_mayhem.html">LulzSec</a> , the hacker group that...
Article | 27/06/2011
Russian CEO arrested for alleged DDoS attack on rival
One of the most controversial figures in Russia's online world, ChronoPay co-founder and CEO Pavel Vrublevsky, has been arrested on suspicion of order...
Article | 27/06/2011
They're back! Data breach notification bills resurface
After several large breaches -- including the <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/1457/epsilon_hack_notification_letters">Epsilon</a>, <a href="http:/...
Article | 27/06/2011
Anonymous claims LulzSec members, steps up attacks
The decision by computer hacking group LulzSec on Saturday to fold operations may be helping another online group, Anonymous, which stepped up attacks...
Article | 25/06/2011
Hacker civil war heats up
In the midst of all the high-profile hacks rolling out almost daily, a hacker civil war is also under way. It's become almost as hard to keep up with ...
Article | 25/06/2011
PCI Council says mobile payment apps can meet security standard
The PCI Security Standards Council has released its long-awaited guidance on how mobile payment acceptance applications can meet PCI standards.
Article | 25/06/2011
Citi hackers made $2.7 million
Citigroup suffered about US$2.7 million in losses after hackers found a way to steal credit card numbers from its website and post fraudulent charges.
Article | 24/06/2011
Twitter scam claims to get you more followers
A scam that has been making its way around Twitter for some time has resurfaced recently and promises to increase a user's followers, but really gives...
Article | 22/06/2011
The good, bad & ugly of Dropbox authentication error
Online storage service Dropbox made an embarrassing error Monday, turning off password authentication for millions of users.
