McAfee’s latest threat report for the fourth quarter of 2009 saw a drop in spam over the period, although the year ended with overall amounts rising.

Top flight outsourcing firm Tata Consulting Services appeared to have lost control of its website to hackers today, with the domain apparently being touted for sale.

Oracle issued an emergency patch for its WebLogic Server almost two weeks after a white-hat hacker disclosed a vulnerability that allows criminals to remotely execute commands on the webserver with no authentication necessary.

With the PwnageTool app now updated for Mac OS X users, most of the iPhone Dev Team’s set of jailbreak and unlock tools now supports iPhone firmware 3.1.3, the latest update from Apple. Although Softpedia does not condone jailbreaking, those who do wish to employ these tools and hack their iPhones should at least follow a few guidelines, so they don’t brick their devices.

Proprietary vendors are using "anti-features", features that no user would ever want, to protect intellectual property, Benjamin “Mako” Hill, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the linux.conf.au open source conference last month.

The coming May 2010 automated election is surrounded by controversy and a number of technological fears. It all started with the defacement of some government websites and now the much talked about importation of 5,000 jamming devices. All these sounded new to the ordinary people, but to those who belong to the I.T. industry - especially those who are involved in security knows that cyber attacks happen everyday, and the impact / cost is staggering.

US technology titans IBM and Intel have rolled out powerful new computer chips designed for businesses continually demanding more from networks and data centers.

Какое-то время назад у бегающих гиков была забава — купить комплект Nike+ (которые были у нас в основном с разряженными несменяемыми батарейками) с iPod nano да со специальными кроссовками Nike. Тогда каждый бегающий гик вступал в социальную интернет-пузомерку и мог соревноваться, побеждать, покорять мировые рейтинги бегая вокруг своего дома.

В этом видео мы покажем, насколько просто может быть взломана беспроводная сеть, даже если она защищена WPA. Единственное условие - перехваченный handshake (пакет аутентификации). Для того чтобы получить его, мы временно отсоединим беспроводного клиента, послав в сеть левый пакет деаутентификации

Microsoft's chief strategy officer has suggested that people should undergo mandatory training before being allowed online.

Printer manufacturer Ricoh has launched a new document security solution designed to help firms monitor printer usage and lock down access to sensitive documents.

The massive Operation Aurora cyber attack last month, apparently launched from command and control server computers in Taiwan, is part of a larger and sustained effort that has been stealing data for years.

The massive Operation Aurora cyber attack last month, apparently launched from command and control server computers in Taiwan, is part of a larger and sustained effort that has been stealing data for years.

Veracode today released Blackberry-specific spyware, which the code-review specialist intends as a “call for defensive research” to show that the BlackBerry is vulnerable to spyware problems.

Salute, my dear admirer of the Backstreet Boys band! Today I will tell you an interesting story about how backstreetboys.com, myspace.com/backstreetboys, and also the twitter.com/backstreetboys (the main network resources of your favorite band) had capitulated like a house on fire, with no fight. It all started with the fact that one day the notorious column editor alluded to continue the theme of hacking the well-regarded foreign celebrities

В случае успешного взлома сервер может быть использован для рассылки спама, распространения вареза, организации атак на другие хосты, кроме того, могут быть украдены или уничтожены важные корпоративные данные. Конечно, своевременный бэкап позволит восстановить все в первоначальное состояние, но не факт, что через некоторое время инцидент не повторится вновь

An analysis of over 1900 penetration tests and 200 actual security breaches over the last year has show that over four out of five security problems come from third party suppliers.

Security researchers have defeated vulnerability protections baked into the latest versions of Internet Explorer, demonstrating that it's possible to poke holes in a safety net that's widely relied on to keep end users safe from drive-by exploits.

IT security firm Sophos today released a list of the top ten countries hosting malware on the web, indicating which territories are the biggest offenders. Sophos detected over 50,000 newly infected web pages every day with its findings revealing that the problem of compromised websites is truly global.

After removing Google's Android driver code from the Linux kernel, Novell Fellow and Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has argued that the mobile OS is incompatible with the project's main tree.