Phishing attacks rose last month after a period of decline, logging a three per cent increase to more than 18,000, with UK users on the receiving end of almost half of the scams, according to the latest Online Fraud Report from RSA Security.

When you’re reading up on Wi-Fi security, you’ll find many different interpretations and opinions. One might say disabling SSID broadcasting will hide your network, while others might say it just draws hackers into an easy job. Some might think WPA encryption is cracked, while others say it’s secure. Here we look at each myth and tell you whether it's verified--or busted.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) warned Australian IT security professionals at last week's AusCERT 2010 conference to do penetration testing on their telephone systems or risk having their PABX hacked.

Remember that little company that needed Microsoft's financial help just to keep going in 1997? Well, today that company - Apple - just surpassed Microsoft in terms of market value.

More than half (54 percent) of IT managers believe employees should be banned from watching the World Cup using their PC at work, says Blue Coat Systems.

Mark Gasson, a senior research fellow working at the University of Reading’s ‘infected’ himself with a computer virus by implanting an RFID chip into his hand.

Cisco Systems has warned of serious vulnerabilities in a device that connects a building's ventilation, lighting, security, and energy supply systems so they can be controlled by IT workers remotely.

Очень интересный материал появился на Forbes о том, как распознать ложь в деловом общении. Бывший специальный агент ФБР и вытор книги "Громче слов" Джо Наварро рассказывает как распознать лжеца. всего есть три стадии общения, когда вы можете это сделать: когда он впервые слышит ваш голос, когда подстраивается под него и когда отвечает.

Что произошло с утопической мечтой о мире, в котором "позабыты хлопоты, остановлен бег, вкалывают роботы, счастлив человек"? Просто она возникла раньше, чем могла быть воплощена в жизнь… но сегодня все изменилось! Мы расскажем о настоящем и будущем робототехники, об искусственном интеллекте, а также об эре, в которой роботы будут воевать на наших войнах, лечить наши болезни, отнимать наши рабочие места и уводить наших девушек

After more than two years, Apple's Safari browser for Macs remains vulnerable to attacks that allow websites to litter a user's hard drive with thousands of malicious files.

Some of the IT industry's biggest names are lending their support to Random Hacks of Kindness, a weekend of hard coding at which volunteer engineers seek to solve real world problems.

A pair of university researchers are presenting a system which could greatly advance the use of cryptography in computing.

Researchers from the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, have developed proof-of-concept implementations of a scheme that exploits unencrypted wireless connections to blast PCs with ads.

An Australian Federal Police (AFP) operation to rescue a hacked database of 60,000 domain names' usernames and passwords and 13,000 credit card numbers — to use as evidence — was almost foiled when the hackers were tipped off and went into a "deletion frenzy".

An internet service provider that has brought more than 20 lawsuits alleging spam abuses has been ordered to pay one of the defendants almost $807,000 for filing "groundless claims" that mired the company in years of costly litigation.

A Nebraska man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for his role in a cyber attack on the Church of Scientology's websites two years ago.

Authentication firm VeriSign has warned that botnets could become more widespread and dangerous as the services become easier to find and cheaper to hire.

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