Security experts are warning that hackers are now using Microsoft’s Live Spaces blogging platform in order to push up the popularity of fraudulent online pharmaceutical sites in a strategy known as search engine poisoning.

With increasingly stringent compliance mandates, the explosion in virtualization interest and adoption, demands for audit reporting, and a spike in security breaches, 2009 has been a dynamic year for the IT security and compliance world.

The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the criminals have taken the next step and begun setting up their own virtual data centers.

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued new internet regulations which could mean that many overseas web sites will be unavailable to Chinese readers.

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U.S. authorities are investigating the theft of an estimated tens of millions of dollars from Citibank by hackers partly using Russian software tailored for the attack, according to a news report.

A security researcher has identified more than 8 million Adobe Flash files that make the websites hosting them vulnerable to attacks that target visitors with malicious code.

An Israeli hacker says he has broken copyright protections built in to Amazon's Kindle for PC, a feat that allows ebooks stored on the application to work with other devices.

Однако случилось так, что точка общественного интереса куда-то переместилась или просто исчезла. Компьютер стал подобен телевизору или даже электролампочке. Тоже — чудесам прошлого. Кстати, плохо понимаю, куда завтра переместится этот пик, этот фокус

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $290 million judgment against Microsoft Corp.

На своем опыте все успели убедиться в том, что антивирус не обеспечивает абсолютной защиты. Пока вирус не попадет в руки специалистов, не будет изучен и не появится сгенерированная под него сигнатура, система остается полностью беззащитной перед новыми угрозами

Телефоны на базе Linux’а мы видели не раз. Но выход смартфона на новенькой Meamo 5, по сути, являющейся Debian’ом, да еще и на машинке с характеристиками, сравнимыми с компьютером, мы пропустить не могли. А потому решили посмотреть, на что же способен этот мобильный линукс и нужен ли он вообще?

By recommending that users exclude some file extensions and folders from antivirus scans, Microsoft may put users at risk, a security company said today.

Twitter's login credentials were used to make DNS changes that redirected surfers to a protest site last Friday, according to site admins.

Over the weekend, a major Typolight security hole was identified that allows hackers to bypass password authentication and gain access to Typolight sites.

Intel has released a patch for its series of silicon-based security protections after researchers from Poland identified flaws that allowed them to completely bypass the extensions.