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Article | 7/10/2009 Windows attack code out, but not being used
It has been a week since hackers released software that could be used to attack a flaw in Windows Vista and Server 2008, but Microsoft and security co...
Article | 28/08/2009 Facebook to tighten privacy after Canadian investigation
Facebook will enhance its social-networking site's privacy features over the next 12 months as a result of a set of recommendations from the Canadian ...
Article | 28/08/2009 Facebook, Twitter provide sensitive info for criminals
Social networking services like Facebook and Twitter foster a false sense of security and lead users to share information which can be used by cybercr...
Article | 25/08/2009 Is your PC bot-infested? here's how to tell
As fireworks boomed on the Fourth of July, thousands of compromised computers attacked U.S. government Web sites. A botnet of more than 200,000 comput...
Article | 23/07/2009 Twitter: a growing security minefield
In June, the world watched as tweets from the streets of Tehran flooded Twitter. Frequent Twitter users--and people who hadn't even heard of the micro...
Article | 21/07/2009 McAfee updates managed cloud security service
McAfee's latest version of its managed security service includes new features that let companies scan their Web sites for vulnerabilities as well as c...
Article | 17/07/2009 Microsoft sues mobile ringtone company for phishing, spam
Microsoft has sued a Hong Kong seller of mobile ringtones, saying the company used phishing techniques to flood Microsoft Live Messenger users with sp...
Article | 15/07/2009 Oracle issues big security patch update
Oracle on Tuesday released its latest quarterly patch update, which includes 10 security fixes for its database and also addresses a range of vulnerab...
Article | 7/07/2009 Viruses and cyber crime: we talk to security expert Eugene Kaspersky
In 1989, Eugene Kaspersky ran afoul of the Cascade virus while working for the Ministry of Defence in the heart of the Soviet Union. He defeated it wi...
Article | 2/07/2009 Open source vs closed source: opinions from a virus analyst
Open source security is a hot topic in the IT world. Some people believe that open source solutions are a potential playground for mischief-makers and...
Article | 30/06/2009 Twitter gains upper hand on latest scam
Sometimes, it seems scams are becoming almost as common as social media experts on Twitter. The latest one, unleashed Monday morning and initially not...
Article | 29/06/2009 Kaspersky Lab sets crosshairs on new breed of cyber criminals
Forget spam and phishing as you once knew it: the new breed of cyber criminals are shifting their operations to fertile new fields, including mobile p...
Article | 27/06/2009 China remains spam haven due to 'bulletproof' hosting
An overwhelming majority of Web sites promoted through spam are hosted in China at service providers that many times choose to ignore complaints and a...
Article | 25/06/2009 Reporters find Northrop Grumman data in Ghana market
A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a comput...
Article | 24/06/2009 High profile Twitter hack spreads porn Trojan
Former Apple Macintosh evangelist Guy Kawasaki posts Twitter messages about a lot of different things, but the message he put up on Tuesday afternoon ...