Non-traditional communications devices such as smartphones and game consoles pose a particular problem to law enforcement agencies trying to milk them for forensic data that reveals criminal activity, attendees were told at the 2010 Computer Forensics Show in New York City.

When Rapid7 announced it was acquiring HD Moore's hugely popular Metasploit tool late last year, many wondered if the integrity of the technology would be preserved.

In an official blog post, an employee in Verizon's Risk Intelligence unit has taken aim at researchers who disclose security flaws, calling them "Narcissistic vulnerability pimps" and comparing them to criminals.

A website that encourages people to share details of their online purchases with world+dog was caught exposing the complete credit card numbers of four of its users.

Blizzard posted an official annoucement on their forums that they have kicked over 320,000 accounts from Battle.net they found were violating the terms of service.

A Russian hacker who says he is living in New Zealand attempted to sell the login details of millions of Facebook users - an unprecedented attack on the world's biggest social networking site.

Faced with stricter Internet security measures, some spammers have begun borrowing a page from corporate America’s playbook: they are outsourcing.

Интересное решение для запоминания паролей предлагает простой сервис PasswordCard. Людям с плохой памятью и не доверяющим электронным устройствам должно понравится.

Я часто задаюсь вопросом: бывает ли у сантехников такой момент в их карьере, когда после очистки очередного засорившегося водостока они начинают ненавидеть свою профессию? Ненавидеть трубы. Ненавидеть шпатлёвку. Ненавидеть все уловки, которые они выучили за годы, ненавидеть учиться новым

На повестке дня очень интересная тема - разбор презентации Стефана "Shocking News in PHP Exploitation", которую он представил на всеобщее обозрение во время конференции PoC2009 в Сеуле 5 ноября. Сразу спешу сообщить, что данное исследование в большей степени направлено на будущее, так как на данный момент очень немногие программисты стремятся воспользоваться всеми преимуществами "волшебных методов" PHP, хотя многие векторы описываемой атаки уже сейчас присущи таким великолепным вещам, как WordPress и Zend Framework.

A seasoned hacker believes Microsoft is now more secure than both Apple and Adobe.Marc Maiffret, who once faced FBI agents waving a gun in his face over his hacking exploits aged 17, now works trying to find security flaws in Microsoft's software and well as tackling malware.

The biggest single threat to computer security is now the inability of PC users to patch their computers, Symantec's review of 2009 year has hinted.

Microsoft has decided to drop a standalone product designed to protect PCs against malware threats in order to concentrate on server-based security and management software and hosted services.

Researchers have demonstrated structural cracks in GSM mobile networks that make it easy to find the number of most US-based cellphone users and to track virtually any GSM-enabled handset across the globe.

McAfee is scrambling to update its antivirus products after a recent update caused system crashes.

Facebook and Microsoft have announced a deal which will let the social networking site's users collaborate on creating documents online using the online version of Office 2010.