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A phishing campaign targeting Twitter has morphed, according to researchers at Sophos. Phishers are now using accounts compromised in the initial campaign launched over the weekend to snare Twitter users lured by the promise of an iPhone.
Phishers a...
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A phishing campaign that makes use of the Google Calendar features was recently distributed to the users of the service. The same techniques were employed by another Google Calendar-based phishing scam that made the rounds during May and June 2008.
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A new cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting the Facebook social networking website has been disclosed on the XSSed project's website. The flaw allows for injection of potentially malicious code.
The XSSed project tracks XSS vulnerabilities ...
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Hackers hijacked the Twitter accounts of more than 30 celebrities and organizations, including President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Fox News, early on Monday, the company confirmed today.
"This morning we discovered 33 Twitter accounts...
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German security experts have built a cheap laptop-based sniffer that can break into cordless phones, debit card terminals and security door mechanisms - and the same gear will also work on the next generation of DECT, known as CAT-iq.
The attack o...
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Twitter is tackling a series of security issues, starting with a hack that hit some well-known celebrity accounts. Someone broke into Twitter accounts belonging to President-elect Barack Obama, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, and Britney Spears over the wee...
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IT security budgets are increasing in 2009 to consume 12.6% of the entire IT operating budget, up from 11.7% in 2008, according to Forrester Research's survey of 942 IT and security managers in North America and Europe.
Staffing and upgrades to ex...
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The on-again, off-again rumors of layoffs at Microsoft appear to be off again after CNBC reported that the company would not have layoffs ahead of its January earnings report.
CNBC, citing Microsoft sources, said that cuts will be made through att...
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A group of researchers from Europe and U.S. have successfully implemented a theoretical attack that subverts the security of the HTTPS protocol. The hackers generated a rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate that was trusted by all major brow...
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Data protection, identity management to get increasing attention in new year's budgets, Forrester says.
Despite a troubled economy, both large and small enterprises are poised to spend a higher percentage of their IT budgets on security in 2009, a m...
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StillSecure specializes in commercial and open source secure network infrastructure solutions. Products include network access control (NAC), intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS), vulnerability management and a unified networking/security platfor...
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As Twitter investigates how several high-profile accounts were attacked, security expert Graham Cluley points to the potentials risks to all users when a system is compromised.
Just days after popular social networking tool Twitter was hit with a p...
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Website threats have become the trend, social engineering continues to lure people to open spammed emails and click malevolent links, and now the return of the malicious attachment has made a startling comeback. All of these security issues, plus Sta...
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The latest trend of security threats against Internet users employs software products which pretend to be security tools that help you get rid of spyware. This type of rogue software, marketed under hundreds of different names, scares users by giving...
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The Vancouver Tech-Security Conference features 25-30 vendor exhibits and several industry experts discussing current tech-security issues such as email security, VoIP, LAN security, wireless security, USB drives security & more. This unique conferen...
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65% of data leaks are via email. Read why email Data Leak Prevention (DLP) is critical to correct honest mistakes, safeguard evidence in cases of malicious activity and educate users in policy. Learn to build an integrated approach to data leak preve...
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Chelmsford Borough Council manages its e-mail security and boosts its IT team’s productivity through Websense Hosted Email Security.
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E-mail is a vital communication tool and home to as much as 80% of your organization's records. Its mission-critical use represents a significant risk to your confidential information. Whether it's a small-scale embarrassment or major financial disru...
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Though external threats and attacks remain a major concern for CIOs and CSOs, loss of the company's most valued data often is the result of insider actions. Some of these actions are intentional and malicious, but the larger percentage is accidental ...
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MailChannels Corporation is the global leader in email traffic shaping software, providing the most effective protocol-layer spam filtering to email receivers of all sizes. The company's flagship product, Traffic Control, combines an ultra efficient ...
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Employees installing legitimate but unauthorized applications are a real and growing threat to business security and productivity. Removable storage media and wireless protocols make the challenge of securing data even more complex. This paper explai...
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The Houston Tech-Security Conference features 25-30 vendor exhibits and several industry experts discussing current tech-security issues such as email security, VoIP, LAN security, wireless security, USB drives security & more. This unique conference...
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Most CSOs and security managers know employees are taking risks everyday that could set their company up for a breach. What some of the biggest offenses? And what can be done to nip that risky behavior in the bud? John Stewart, CSO of Cisco, offers h...
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The insider threat - it may be the hardest to detect, yet it poses the greatest risk to information security and regulatory compliance. And in the wake of the $7.2 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale, the topic is hotter than ever.
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Verizon Business Security Solutions Uses Latest Computer Forensic
Techniques to Catch the Hacker of an International Retailer’s Data.
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Take a look at "How IE AntiVirus Infects Your Computer" video and learn how to remove rogue anti-spyware program IE AntiVirus . IE AntiVirus 3.2, or IEAntiVirus, is a rogue anti-spyware program that is promoted on the Web through trojan video codecs....
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The Boston Tech-Security Conference features 25-30 vendor exhibits and several industry experts discussing current tech-security issues such as email security, VoIP, LAN security, wireless security, USB drives security & more. This unique conference ...
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LifeLock is the industry leader in the rapidly growing field of Identity Theft Protection. It is based in Tempe, Arizona. Their company is led by experienced and successful entrepreneurs and industry experts. They are backed by Bessemer Venture Partn...
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2008 is nearly in the rear view mirror, and as we prepare for 2009, one must ask the question "What threats (new and old) are we going to have to deal with in the coming year?" But first, let's analyze 2008 compared to what we expected a year ago.
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The Facebook Platform represents a powerful combination of social networking
and third-party gadget aggregation. Officially released in May 2007, the
Facebook API provides developers with millions of potential users and partial
access to their inf...
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Opening an infected file..
getting fake alerts and many rouge antispyware programs installed...
Do not try to download and test these programs. This was done in Vmware.
Remove viruses ?
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