More than a quarter of the security products submitted for the recent Windows Server 2008 R2 Virus Bulletin VB100 anti-malware tests failed to pass.

An analysis being presented this week says open source software is exploited faster and more effectively than proprietary solutions.

Unauthorized users penetrate Pentagon networks over six million times a day, says the head of the US Cyber Command, urging US military to guard against cyber attacks.

The Glorious People's Republic of China is facing a wave of hack attacks from inside its own bamboo curtain.

Researchers have released software that exposes private information and executes arbitrary code on sensitive websites by exploiting weaknesses in a widely used web development technology.

Ровно три года назад один из коллег спросил: "Ребята, я хочу определять в любое время местонахождение моей машины. Например, зайти на сайт и увидеть, где находится автомобиль на карте Москвы. Какие есть простые, надежные и недорогие решения?" В то время о недорогих устройствах оставалось только мечтать

Периодически в интернете можно встретить настолько ценные статьи, что хочется распечатать их и зачитать до дыр. При этом не на всех сервисах предусмотрена версия статьи для печати или наши желания распечатать не совпадают с предоставляемыми возможностями (хочется оставить картинку или изменить тип основного шрифта)

Обеспечение правильной и бесперебойной работы почтового сервиса является одной из приоритетных задач администратора. Можно спорить до хрипоты, что свободные сервера лучше, но факт остается фактом - Exchange Server пользуется большой популярностью среди многих компаний, благодаря надежности работы, тесной интеграции с Active Directory и планирующим особенностям

E-commerce company Digital River exposed data belonging to almost 200,000 individuals after hackers executed a “highly unusual search command” against its secured servers, according to a news report.

I’m as sick of writing about it as you are sick of reading about it. But because Facebook has become a societal juggernaut: a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way, we need to discuss it because it’s messing with lots of functions of society.

The ability to access the code of open-source applications may give attackers an edge in developing exploits for the software, according to a paper analyzing two years' worth of attack data.

Local police here have arrested a seven-member gang in Hyderabad for allegedly hacking the website of the Regional Passport Office.

Social engineering has evidently earned a new level of respect from hacker community: For the first time, this year's Defcon gathering in Las Vegas will feature a contest in which participants will compete to gather nuggets of information from unsuspecting target companies -- over the telephone instead of the Internet.

The internet as we know it is reaching its limits.

The Consumers’ Foundation yesterday said a number of social gaming companies do not provide adequate protection of consumers’ rights, as they have no standard procedures to prevent hackers from illegally accessing players’ accounts.

"Malware embedded into legitimate-looking games designed for Windows Mobile has appeared, automatically dialing up foreign telephone services to rig up hundreds of dollars in illicit charges for users behind their backs," Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.

The Israeli radio reported today that hackers hacked 1000 Israeli websites since the Israeli attack of Freedom Flotilla on last Monday.

Recent reports have detailed Google's actions to phase out the internal use of Microsoft's operating system for security reasons following targeted attacks that the company has experienced. The targeted espionage attacks took place in January of this year and were carried out with the aim of gaining access to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human right activists.

Adobe has announced that an exploitable flaw in Adobe Reader 9.x, Acrobat 9.x, and Flash 9.x and 10.x has been discovered and is being actively exploited. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux versions are all affected. The flaw allows arbitrary code execution by attackers, and hence it is deemed "critical."