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Article | 3/02/2011 Waledac botnet poised for a rebound with stolen credentials
The Waledac botnet, crippled by legal action from Microsoft and covert infiltration by security researchers just a year ago, appears poised for a big ...
Article | 1/02/2011 Arbor: Mobile networks trail fixed line in security
Mobile network operators are trailing their fixed-line counterparts by several years in regards to security, with many experiencing outages and other ...
Article | 28/01/2011 Facebook erodes privacy and tightens security
Facebook straddles a precarious line when it comes to information security and data privacy. As a social networking site, its very existence is based ...
Article | 27/01/2011 Hackers turn back the clock with Telnet attacks
A new report from Akamai Technologies shows that hackers appear to be increasingly using the Telnet remote access protocol to attack corporate servers...
Article | 26/01/2011 Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page apparently hacked
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to be the second high-profile victim of a hacking attack on his own Facebook page, following a similar accoun...
Article | 25/01/2011 Carberp banking malware upgrades itself
A piece of banking malware that researchers have been keeping an eye on is adding more sophisticated capabilities to stay hidden on victims' PCs, acco...
Article | 21/01/2011 Soundminer Android malware listens, then steals, phone data
Researchers have developed a low-profile Trojan horse program for Google's Android mobile OS that steals data in a way that is unlikely to be detected...
Article | 14/01/2011 Wikileaks and the authorized insider threat
The recent military and U.S. State Department Wikileaks fiasco epitomizes a key challenge to data security and privacy today: the authorized insider t...
Article | 18/01/2011 UK cyber challenge aims to fill IT talent shortage
Paul Laverack of London is an actor, but he's considering a possible career change -- to computer security.
Article | 11/01/2011 Adobe sandbox protection hacked
Last year Adobe got the message that it was the target du jour for malicious attacks and stepped up its efforts to secure and protect its software. Ho...
Article | 11/01/2011 Protecting data on portable drives
It is almost mind-boggling how much data can be stored on a portable drive or USB thumb drive. As convenient as it is it to be able to carry 1TB of da...
Article | 7/01/2011 Security researcher finds way around Flash sandbox
A security researcher has found a gap in the way Adobe Systems has fortified its Flash Player for better security, which could result in data being st...
Article | 22/12/2010 Protect your backup data from Murphy's Law
Have you ever noticed that insurance seems to operate on the Murphy's Law principle? If you have it, you never need it, but as soon as the insurance i...
Article | 22/12/2010 Cloud Security Alliance updates controls matrix
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has launched a revision of the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). The new matrix (version 1.1), available for free downloa...
Article | 22/12/2010 'Do Not Track' coming to Firefox 4
Hard on the heels of Microsoft's decision to offer "do not track" functionality in its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser comes word that Mozilla is...