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Article | 29/07/2011 E-commerce sites based on open source code under attack
About 100,000 Web pages for e-commerce sites based on the open source OS Commerce software have been compromised with malware through a mass iFrame in...
Article | 10/06/2011 Warning: Urgent Microsoft update may be Firefox malware
A phony anti-virus scam is presenting itself as a near-perfect Microsoft update popup with one notable exception - it appears only on machines using F...
Article | 10/06/2011 Feds seize Swiss bank account of scareware mogul
Federal authorities have seized all the cash in a Swiss bank account held by a scareware mogul and scam artist who is charged with selling phony Syman...
Article | 26/05/2011 5 ways to stay safe from fake anti-virus malware attack on Macintosh
Macintosh users are finding out the hard way what Microsoft Windows users have known for a long time: Criminals want to sell them fake anti-virus soft...
Article | 24/05/2011 Siemens' 'damage control' response to SCADA bug frustrates researcher
Siemens said it intends to fix a vulnerability discovered in its industrial control system products, but the NSS Labs researcher who found the bug say...
Article | 11/05/2011 Malware writers gunning for Google Android
Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms have been the proving ground for mobile malware over the past five years, but a new Juniper Networks re...
Article | 10/05/2011 Verisign expands cloud-based DDoS protection
Citing a rise in the number and scope of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks across the Internet, Verisign is expanding its cloud-based DDoS ...
Article | 5/05/2011 Anonymous not off the hook for the Sony PlayStation Network attack
The worldwide hacker group Anonymous may have played a role - even unwittingly - in the theft of personal data from 77 million Sony PlayStation Networ...
Article | 27/04/2011 Corporate security threats many times come from customers, business partners
While a company can do everything possible for its own network security, in the age of e-commerce and online banking that's not enough.
Article | 19/04/2011 Verizon's 12-step program for thwarting data breaches
Verizon's just-released "2011 Data Breach Investigations Report" says businesses could prevent most data breaches if they stick to security principle...
Article | 19/04/2011 Verizon study: data breaches quintupled in 2010
Criminals carried out more but smaller data thefts last year than in previous years, indicating a shift toward simpler exploits that run lower risk of...
Article | 19/04/2011 Smartphone security follies: A brief history
As smartphones have grown more powerful and complex, so have the threats against them.
Article | 14/04/2011 Security fragmentation needs to end
A new week, a new rash of attacks against security vendors, email marketers and banks. It would be easy to point fingers and laugh at the irony, espec...
Article | 17/03/2011 Hackers learn new trick to duck Firefox, Chrome anti-phishing measures
A new phishing scam that targets bank and PayPal passwords and other consumer data that criminals use to loot private accounts is designed to beat sec...
Article | 10/03/2011 Botnets, cloud computing power may be fueling attacks against VoIP
A spike in attacks against IP PBXs that started last fall shows no signs of abating, spawning speculation that those responsible have tapped intobotne...