Danish vulnerability specialist Secunia has launched a patch management utility that checks almost 13,000 applications from more than 2,300 vendors for unpatched vulnerabilities.

Symantec is introducing a security service designed to protect companies from web-based attacks.

Foreign countries that turn a blind eye to cybercrime would lose US financial assistance and resources under a bill introduced Tuesday in the Senate.

The Swedish parliament recently passed a resolution recognizing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire (now the nation state of Turkey) in 1915 and 1916. The Turkish government has protested the action by Sweden as well as the United States in recent days through official protests and by calling off this year's meeting of the American-Turkish Council. Additionally, on March 17, 2010, Turkey's Prime Minister threatened to deport 100,000 Armenians back to their homeland.

Victorinox is offering a £100,000 prize to any hacker who can beat the biometric security built into its newest USB flash drive -- but you have to be in London to give it a try.

Protest group Anonymous said in a submission on the government's proposed internet filter that it will launch more cyber attacks in protest over the government's plans to introduce mandatory filtering to censor internet content.

The Transportation Security Administration, ominously known as the TSA, wants to be able to track your cellphone while you go through airport security.

A number of BitDefender users, whose 64-bit Windows systems stopped working or were unable to be rebooted after updating their security programs, vented their frustration by flooding the antivirus (AV) vendor's forum pages over the weekend.

The UK arm of the Pirate Party has posted its 2010 manifesto, saying that it will focus efforts on copyright reform, privacy protection and freedom of speech.

Russian authorities have nabbed the man accused of masterminding a coordinated global ATM heist of $9.5 million from Atlanta-based card processing company RBS WorldPay.

It was supposed to display how the modern Conservative Party could harness the power of the internet. Instead, the Tories’ latest attempt to engage the web backfired spectacularly.

The German government has issued an official statement advising people not to use Firefox pending the release of a patch to defend against a critical unpatched vulnerability.

Прошлой осенью мы уже составляли для тебя календарь интересных хакерских мероприятий на осень-зиму 2009 – в него вошли самые заметные форумы, конференции, lan-пати и прочие ивенты.

Мы все используем смайлики в Твиттере или в чатах. Но часто мы не можем написать ничего сложнее :) или ;). А теперь посмотрите, что понапридумывали японцы! И все это в юникоде и можно юзать в Твиттере!

Fiesta, Fire-Pack, IcePack, Tornado и множество других связок сплоитов знает мир хакеров, но ни одна из них не написана на Python'е. В одноименной статье мы показали, как этот пробел может быть устранен. А теперь посмотрим на получившийся сплоит-пак в действии.