Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they've written for Google's Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas.

World Cup fever is almost upon us and, with England's World Cup squad due to be announced today, it looks like hackers and criminal gangs will be generating large volumes of infected and other malicious email with a football theme.

Adobe's Photoshop Creative Suite 4 image-editing software has critical vulnerabilities that could let hackers take control of Macs with the suite installed. Graham Cluley, a security researcher, said the security risk lies in infected ASL, ABR, and GRD files that can cause you to surrender control of your Mac to a remote hacker.

At the upcoming The Next HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference organized bi-yearly by 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, the RFID badges distributed to attendees will be fully hackable, complete with open API. In a HOPE press release and video, commentary is made on how data passively collected through RFID badges can be used to explore a number of interesting questions regarding group and individual behavior; by encouraging attendees a way to access, manipulate, and interact with that data, they expect to see new ideas emerge about the capabilities and potential misuses of RFID-based technologies.

A hacking tool advertised as being capable of enabling users to hack Windows Live accounts and grab Windows Live Messenger passwords is actually used by attackers to spread their malicious code. According to BitDefencer, HackMSN.exe will not only not permit users to recover Windows Live passwords, but will instead infect them will malware, namely the Backdoor.Bifrose.AADY.

A problem that rendered as many as 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days is a warning to safeguard a system that enemies would love to disrupt, a defense expert says.

Mac security firm Intego has issued a warning about a Mac twist on a two-year-old Windows spyware app that sends a variety of potentially sensitive information to external servers. Dubbed "OSX/OpinionSpy," the spyware is installed along with a number of widely available third-party Mac OS X screensaver modules, as well as with at least one shareware tool to strip audio tracks from Flash videos.

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Этот видеоурок интересен хотя бы тем, что дает основное представление о способах антиотладки, основанных на применении механизма обработки исключений. Автор наглядно демонстрирует два эффективных способа противодействия отладчикам уровня приложения: один из методов - установка собственного обработчика исключений с последующей генерацией ошибочной ситуации - действует практически на все отладчики третьего кольца, вызывая переполнение стека

Самая большая проблема современного офисного работника в том, что он практически не способен фокусироваться на длительное время на своих задачах — постоянные нотификации почты, мессенджеров, оповещений социальных сайтов и т.д.

Oil giant BP suffered further embarrassment on Thursday after its official Twitter account was hacked.

As per the security firm, search engine results infested with links to bogus antivirus software have been a continuous problem for Internet users.

Technology firms should be wary of outsourcing manufacturing overseas en masse, says the author of an annual IT industry report.

Ryan Gavin, Microsoft's senior director of Internet Explorer, is remarkably chirpy for a man whose product's market share has plunged from 90% to roughly 60%, but it seems things are not all bad. "The future for IE is as bright as it's been any time over the past five years," he says. "IE8 is the fastest-growing browser in history: it's the number one browser on Windows, and the number one across all OSs

The CEO of a company accused of making more than $100 million selling harmful "scareware" antivirus products was already a fugitive from U.S. authorities, following his arrest in 2008 on criminal counterfeiting charges.