When Adobe releases Flash Player 10.1 in the next couple of months, users of the application will have clearer, easier-to-set privacy options for their browser cookies. But more user privacy comes at the expense of fraud detection processes: The upgraded software is likely to disrupt some ecommerce and online banking sites that rely on cookies as another layer to authenticate their customers.

Businesses are pumping information security investment into all the wrong areas, research has revealed.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the LoveBug worm, which was arguably the first malware infection that used social engineering techniques to propagate itself. Though simple in its approach, LoveBug was quite virulent in its attack methodology and, as reports of the time noted, hit several million users of the internet in its first 24 hours.

Microsoft has released a new version of its Producer software, fixing a critical security problem that plagued the product for several months. Producer is a free add-on tool that helps users capture and add multimedia components to their PowerPoint presentations.

Flaws in the configuration and security of the U.S. Coast Guard IT system caused a material weakness in the Department of Homeland Security financial system, according to a recent audit.

A North Carolina grocery worker is being held without bail in Houston on attempted computer hacking charges after inadvertently partnering with an undercover FBI agent in an alleged citywide ATM-reprogramming caper.

Google has released a free online tutorial that gives developers the chance to play the role of malicious hacker by exploiting real security bugs in a mock web application.

В ранее опубликованной статье "SMM и SMRAM или 128Кб потусторонней памяти. Исследовательская работа №5 и 6", был рассмотрен режим System Management Mode (SMM) и оперативная память с особым статусом - System Management RAM (SMRAM), используемая для поддержки данного режима

Когда мы говорим о звонках через интернет, мы обычно имеем в виду связь PC-to-PC. Звонки с помощью Skype и прочих подобных приложений. На телефоны мы звоним не так часто, а зря. Есть множество сайтов, которые позволяют бесплатно позвонить куда угодно

Hackers have once again wrested a measure of control from Apple's iron-fisted grasp of iPads and newer iPhones with the release of jailbreaking software that allows hundreds of unapproved apps to be installed on the devices.

Think you can hide behind the privacy of an "unlisted" cell phone number? Think again. Maybe you believe you don't need security software on a Mac or iPad. You'd swear that Firefox is the safest browser in town. Wrong on both counts.

Websites operated by the US Treasury Department are redirecting visitors to websites that attempt to install malware on their PCs, a security researcher warned on Monday.

One security researcher turned operating-system developer is claiming that Windows 7 and Mac OS X are insecure by design, while proposing her own platform as a model for the bulletproof desktop OS. While swapping rootkit research for the Qubes project, Joanna Rutkowska, founder and CEO of Invisible Things Lab, announced some changes to the company she founded, namely the shift in focus away from security research and onto designing systems that were immune to rootkit by design

A college student is facing over twenty years in jail and massive fines after he guessed the password to the Yahoo email account of then vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

I apologize up front for jumping into this debate, but I couldn't resist. Not a week goes by, or so it seems, without some newspaper, magazine or TV show (apologies to my media brethren) lambasting security and IT professionals because they force unnecessary security controls on the poor, downtrodden consumer or worker. It's as if your security requirements are designed to make everyone's life miserable with little or no benefit