Facebook has been hit by another scam that exploits the social network's 'Like' button, reports security firm Sophos.

Google Wave is a highly anticipated collaboration tool that is still on the horizon. What kind of security options is Google working on for its Wave protocol in 2010? Have some of the big security holes present in the September 2009 protocol release been addressed?

A recent survey conducted by Tufin Technologies, a provider of firewall management software, finds that of the 242 IT professionals working at companies with over 1,000 employees, 30 percent said they audited their firewall security only once in every five plus years. So when those systems are ultimately compromised, and then used to harm systems elsewhere, who should be liable? Obviously, the perpetrator of the crime is primarily responsible

Indian security agencies have tracked a server in Pakistan that was used to hack the computer of an Indian Army major based in the Andamans who is being questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Over the last few days, news has emerged that a U.S. Army intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, was the source that recently leaked classified information to Wikileaks. But he didn't just leak 260,000 classified cables and a brutal video of an Apache helicopter mowing down civilians and journalists in Iraq -- no, he also leaked the code name and details of the government investigation into the Chinese attacks on Google and other Silicon Valley businesses.

The revelation that the open-source Unreal IRC server download has been infected with malware for some eight months is pretty worrying. But the added discovery that this Trojan horse made its way into the Gentoo distro is real reason for the Linux community to re-examine how trusted repositories are handled.

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Буквально за несколько дней перед сдачей номера в печать Metasploit обзавелся свеженьким модулем, про который мы просто не могли не рассказать. Благодаря новой команде getsystem, на скомпрометированной системе стало возможно перейти из User Level в ring0, получив права NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM! И это - в любых версиях винды.

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More than 100,000 webpages, some belonging to newspapers, police departments, and other large organizations, have been hit by an attack over the past few days that redirected visitors to a website that attempted to install malware on their machines.

Trendnet has beaten off stiff competition to be first to market with a 450Mbps 802.11n router.

Olympus has confirmed that nearly 2,000 of its Stylus Tough 6010 digital cameras have shipped with a worm installed on the included microSD card.

An employee in one of Bank of America's customer call centers has admitted he stole sensitive account information and tried to sell it for cash.

AT&T has confirmed an iPad security breach which computer experts say has exposed over 100,000 early iPad adopters to potential malicious hacking and spam, with those vulnerable including dozens of CEOs, military officials, top politicians and media personalities.

Twitter is to introduce a new feature designed to wrap and shorten all links posted by users, in an effort to improve security and gain more information on links being shared.

Quantum links are said to be unhackable because the "key" used to establish a secure channel is encoded into the spin of a photon. If the photon is intercepted, it becomes altered in a detectable way. However, hackers have discovered loopholes that allow them to escape detection, for instance, by intercepting the photons and replacing them with copies.

A security researcher has warned of a vulnerability in older versions of the Windows operating system that allows attackers to take full control of a PC by luring its user to a booby-trapped website.

The local ISP industry is expected to take up the Australian Internet Industry's (AII) new voluntary code of practice on cyber security, but some doubts over the plan have been expressed.