Latest news
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Mass iFrame injection attack now counts millions of compromised web pages
01.08.2011
The recently discovered iFrame injection campaign rages on, as the number of compromised web pages goes from 90,000+ to over three million.
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90 people arrested for organized eBay fraud
14.07.2011
90 suspects belonging to three different cyber fraud gangs have been arrested following a coordinated action by the Romanian Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), the National Police, Intelligence Service and the General Directorate for Intelligence and Internal Security.
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Popular web stores vulnerable to "free shopping" exploits
13.04.2011
A recently published paper titled "How to Shop for Free Online" presents the depressing results of a security analysis of some of the most popular online stores, executed as a joint effort by two researches from Indiana University and two from Microsoft.
Spotlight

The security of WordPress plugins
Posted on 18 June 2013. | Checkmarx’s research lab identified that more than 20% of the 50 most popular WordPress plugins are vulnerable to common Web attacks, such as SQL Injection.

Information security executives need to be strategic thinkers
Posted on 17 June 2013. | George Baker, the Director of Information Security at Exostar, talks about the challenges in working in a dynamic threat landscape, offers tips for aspiring infosec leaders, and more.

Large orgs in denial about own security breaches?
Posted on 14 June 2013. | Over two thirds (66%) of large organizations said they either had not experienced a security incident in the last 12-18 months or were unsure if they had.

Vulnerability scanning with PureCloud
Posted on 12 June 2013. | nCircle PureCloud is a cloud-based network security scanning product built upon the companies' vulnerability and risk management system IP360.

Reactions from the security community to the NSA spying scandal
Posted on 11 June 2013. | Read on for comments on this scandal that Help Net Security received from a variety of security professionals and analysts.
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