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- Top reasons for IT layoffs in 2011
- The evolution of targeted attacks and exploit kits
- Apple iWork passwords cracked
- ISO 27001 benefits: How to obtain management support
- Cybercriminals tailoring tactics for maximum appeal
- Web app security scanner Netsparker 2.1 released
- Building Resilient IP Networks
- Faronics Anti-Virus 3.0 released
- Chrome to stop using online checks to spot revoked certificates
- Satellite telephony encryption cracked
- Trustwave revokes "MitM" certificate, vows never to issue one again
- More bogus ad-serving Android apps evade Google's Bouncer
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Last month saw malware attacks targeting a wide range of potential victims, including gamers looking for a Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 game crack, small business owners concerned about the reputation of their business, and government organizations receiving spoofed messages from US-CERT.
While most respondents wish they knew more about how to keep personal information private (58 percent), and how to safeguard their devices (50 percent), the younger generation wants more information than older respondents about using social networks more safely (38 percent compared to 27 percent).
In less than an hour, and with simple equipment, researchers found the crypto key which is needed to intercept telephone conversations. Using open source software and building on their previous research results, they were able to exploit the security weaknesses.
Users searching for games on the official Android Market have lately been heavily targeted by ad-pushing scammers. First it was the fake Temple Run app, and now a string of bogus copies of popular iPhone games supposedly developed by Rovio Mobile, the developers of the famous Angry Birds game.
A little over a year after the implementation of a Flash Player sandbox into Google Chrome, Adobe has announced the release of a public beta of its new Flash Player sandbox for the Firefox browser.
Contrary to conventional thinking that large bandwidth cyber attacks wreak the most damage on enterprises, security experts at Radware instead found that bigger problems usually come in small packages.
A Hungarian national who tried to blackmail Marriot International into giving him a job by stealing the company's internal documents and threatening to publish them has been sentenced to 30 months in prison by a District of Maryland judge.
As a country that is used to being dominant in the more traditional sense, the U.S. has been working to come to grips with a new sense of supremacy as a result of cyber threats, according to DiploNews. The U.S. has taken steps towards allowing cyberwarfare.
VeriSign admitted it was hacked in 2010 and cannot identify what data was stolen. Here are comments on the situation that Help Net Security received from industry veterans from Entrust, BH Cosulting, Imperva, LogLogic, SystemExperts Corporation and Comodo.
A new Barracuda Labs study provides an example of an increasing number of attackers move to social networks to carry out their wares. The study analyzes a random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook accounts to identify key differences between average real user accounts and fake accounts created by attackers and spammers.
If you are interested in knowing everything that you can possibly know about networking, chances are you were already urged to read Network Warrior. Four years have passed since the first edition was published and found a place on the shelf of every serious network administrator, and this second edition has been modified somewhat to keep pace with the newer hardware and to cover additional subjects. 