Massive bot attack spoofs Facebook password messages
A massive bot-based attack has been hitting Facebook users, with nearly three-quarters of a million users receiving fake password reset messages, according to security researchers.
View ArticleWebsense debuts unified security architecture
Websense Tuesday announced Triton, a unified security architecture, which merges its data-loss prevention and e-mail security products, keeping much of the security-as-a-service approach it already...
View ArticleGreat firewall of News Limited saves $5.5M a year
Blocking people from accessing unproductive Web sites has saved News Limited an estimated $5.5 million a year the company’s top security professional estimates.
View ArticleFireshark plugin decodes the malicious Web
A computer security researcher has released a plugin for Firefox that provides a wealth of data on Web sites that may have been compromised with malicious code.
View ArticleFinjan sues McAfee, Symantec over patent claims
Finjan has sued five rival security companies, including Symantec and McAfee, claiming it holds crucial patents used by popular antivirus products and security services.
View ArticleAfter holiday lull, spam plague returns
After a holiday hiatus, spammers have returned to ply their trade boosting bogus products, security researchers said today.
View ArticleMan who liveblogged Bin Laden raid was hacked
The Pakistani programmer who dubbed himself "the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing about it" is also the guy who got his website hacked without knowing about it.
View ArticleFacebook scams popping up that exploit Norway tragedy
Facebook scams are popping up from people looking to exploit Friday's bombing and shootings in Norway. Users should be careful not to click on links they are not familiar with.
View ArticleOpen this malware or I'll sue you
The latest social engineering trick to get victims to open malicious email attachments accuses them of being spammers and threatens to sue them if they don't stop.
View ArticleFacebook's URL scanner is vulnerable to cloaking attacks
Members of a hacking think-tank called Blackhat Academy claim that Facebook's URL scanning systems can be tricked into thinking malicious pages are clean by using simple content cloaking techniques.
View ArticleNew Wi-Fi routers, cloud services simplify branch networks
Aerohive Networks has unveiled a set of products and services for small, remote, or branch office wireless networking. The new "Branch on Demand" product line includes low-cost Wi-Fi routers, coupled...
View ArticleLady Gaga Twitter, Facebook pages recover from iPad 2 scam hacks
Lady Gaga's Twitter and Facebook pages were hacked on Monday, tricking some of her millions of followers to a scam website looking to suck up victims' personal information.
View ArticleStella Maris College deploys social network protection for senior students
Sydney Catholic girls’ school, Stella Maris College, has reduced the risk of Internet threats posed by social networking sites by deploying a Web security gateway.
View ArticleSex sites out, IT sites in for cybercrooks planting malware
It's long been a tactic by cybercriminals to load up compromised websites with malware-laden links to snare victims, but instead of it being the sex sites as of old, the favored type of website now is...
View ArticleF5 tries to stay ahead of the curve with moves into security and beyond
F5 Networks is best known for its high-end network management hardware, especially its BIG-IP line of load balancers. Those offerings have fueled annual revenue growth from $525 million to more than...
View ArticleMost Java-enabled browsers vulnerable to widespread Java exploits, Websense says
Most browser installations use outdated versions of the Java plug-in that are vulnerable to at least one of several exploits currently used in popular Web attack toolkits, according to statistics...
View ArticleIE zero-day vulnerability exploited more widely than previously thought
A recently announced and yet-to-be-patched vulnerability that affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against organizations in Taiwan since the...
View ArticleUnencrypted Windows crash reports give 'significant advantage' to hackers, spies
Windows' error- and crash-reporting system sends a wealth of data unencrypted and in the clear, information that eavesdropping hackers or state security agencies can use to refine and pinpoint their...
View ArticleResearcher claims two hacker gangs exploiting unpatched IE bug
Two different hacker groups are exploiting the same still-unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) with almost-identical attack code, a security researcher said Tuesday.
View ArticleIE zero-day exploit being used in widespread attacks
The number of attacks exploiting a yet-to-be-patched vulnerability in Internet Explorer has increased dramatically over the past few days, indicating the exploit is no longer used just in targeted...
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