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