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…
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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,…
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…
Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen (or SHY character) to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they…