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INSECURITY VENDOR Kaspersky Labs suffered a shocker over the weekend with the firm’s US website getting hacked.

Once again WiFi security is in the news, this time a new report in the UK shows that almost half of UK home WiFi networks could be compromised within 5 seconds.

The U.S. has by far the highest number of bot-infected computers of any country in the world, with nearly four times as many infected PCs as the country in second place, Brazil, according to a new report by Microsoft. The quarterly report on malicious software and Internet attacks shows that while some of the major […]

Patches – and plenty of them – took center stage this week as two big software companies shipped substantial updates. Some alarming news also broke regarding the growing number of botnets operating out of the U.S.  Read on for the full week in review.

A recent study shows that organized criminals create approximately 8,000 malicious websites every day, or over 57,000 each week. These malicious websites model legitimate websites that we visit every day, such as bank websites, online shopping sites, and eBay. According to this study, the most frequently impersonated companies include Visa, Amazon.com, PayPal, HSBC, and the […]

Facebook has launched a new security feature allowing users to request a temporary password if they are using a public computer. A post on the Facebook blog explains that users can text “otp” to 32665 on their mobile phone, and receive a password that can be used only once and expires in 20 minutes. In order […]

There seems to be a fairly serious attack being exploited in the wild that targets vulnerable ASP.Net web applications, so far there is a temporary fix but no official announcement on when a patch will be issued. The next scheduled patches should be pushed out on October 12th. If you had set up your server […]

Most of the big companies in the modern age of business are moving to the acquisition model rather than developing new technologies, Symantec has made a few purchases in recent years. Their latest move is to offer security for the hot smartphone platforms Android and iOS, which powers the new iPhone 4 and iPad. The […]

The number one biggest security hole is passwords, as every password security study shows. Hydra is a parallelized (multi-threaded) login cracker which supports attacking/cracking numerous protocols. New modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast.

The Stuxnet buzz continued this week, Adobe took a few steps toward better security and Microsoft announced plans for its largest Patch Tuesday ever. But it wasn’t just Microsoft, Adobe and everyone’s favorite worm grabbing headlines. Read on for the full week in review. Not going away anytime soon; Stuxnet continued to pervade the news […]