Safer surfing mobile social networks

Biggest Chinese hacker training site taken down

Cybercriminals focus on targeted attacks

73% share online banking password

Social networks are a danger zone

Political hacktivism and the exploitation of tragedies is on the rise
Tuesday, 9 February 2010.
A new McAfee report highlights the rise of political hacktivism in countries like Poland, Latvia, Denmark and Switzerland as well as the most significant spam-generating stories in 2009. 2009 averaged approximately 135.5 billion spam messages per day, yet spam volume decreased by 24 percent in Q4 compared to Q3.

Zero-day vulnerabilities on the market
Monday, 8 February 2010.
Zero-day vulnerabilities have become prized possessions to attackers and defenders alike. As the recent China-Google attack demonstrated, they are the basis on which most of the successful attacks are crafted these days.

Sensitive information retrieved from P2P networks
Monday, 8 February 2010.
At the ShmooCon security conference security researchers Larry Pesce and Mick Douglas demonstrated the amazing variety of sensitive information that people send out out over peer-to-peer networks, without a thought as to what would happen if such information fell into the wrong hands.

Hackers and experimental artists with Pascal Cretain

Cyber threats with Mohd Noor Amin

Security testing methodologies with Jon Clay

Insider bank fraud with Shirley Inscoe

First man ever charged with hacking VoIP providers
Friday, 5 February 2010.
The man who purported to be a legitimate wholesaler of these services, admitted that he sold discounted service plans to his unsuspecting customers. He was able to offer low prices because he would secretly hack into the computer networks of VoIP providers to route his calls.

A closer look at File Encryption XP 1.5
Thursday, 4 February 2010.
This file and folder encryption program creats completely self-contained files which means that, if you have the correct password, you can view your encrypted files on any Windows PC without installing any other encryption software.

Cracking encrypted iPhone backups
Thursday, 4 February 2010.
Starting with iTunes 8.2 and iPhoneOS 3.0 it became possible to protect iTunes backups with a password. After you specify protection password, no backup data leaves or enters device unencrypted. The data is encrypted on the device, transmitted encrypted and saved encrypted on the hard disk. If you need password recovery of password-protected iPhone and iPod touch backups made with iTunes, you are in luck because now there is an app for that!