Если посмотреть на репозитарий приложений месяц назад, когда я делился своими впечатлениями от общения с мини-компьютером от Nokia, и сейчас, то это две большие разницы. Программ становится все больше: часть портируется с Debian, часть со старых версий Maemo, которая использовался в предыдущих моделях интернет-планшетов, а часть разрезывается с нуля

The latest version of OpenOffice fixes several vulnerabilities that could cause a computer to become compromised by a remote attacker.

eBay is working on a fix for a cross-site request forgery problem that could allow an attacker to change a user's password and get access to that user's account.

Malicious spam volumes increased dramatically in the back half of 2009, reaching three billion messages per day, compared to 600 million messages per day in the first half of 2009. But this is still a tiny fraction of the estimated global spam volume, thought to be about 200 billion messages per day.

In an effort to boost sales, sellers of a fake antivirus product known as Live PC Care are offering their victims live technical support.

Here's one more piece of evidence that the Mac isn't the secure, locked-down system that its proponents claim: The organizer of the Pwn2Own hacking contest says that Windows 7 is more secure than Snow Leopard, and that Safari will be the first browser to fall victim in the upcoming hacking contest.

An Internet forum which provided links to movies and TV shows hosted on sites such as Rapidshare has been raided by police. Following an anti-piracy group investigation, three alleged operators of the 30,000 member site were arrested, two of which were teenagers. Searches were carried out on members in three other locations.

Microsoft is looking into reports that some Windows Live customers may have gotten access to other users' information.

Facebook has made it possible for its members to assign, on the fly, a wider variety of access levels to content they post using third-party applications and Web sites, the company said Wednesday.

A French judge has issued an arrest warrant for a cyclist accused of hacking into computer systems at an anti-doping lab.

An annual hacking contest that has made mincemeat of security on both Mac and Windows computers will set its sights on smartphones and browsers with as much as $100,000 in awards next month.

Czech security experts have uncovered a global network of devices attacked by computer viruses within which it was possible to wiretap and gain access to sensitive data, Jan Vykopal, head of the security project of Masaryk University, told CTK yesterday.

A group of over 30 national and international computer security groups on Tuesday released a list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors as part of an effort to make the custom software business more accountable.

A common Web programming error could give hackers a way to take over Google Buzz accounts, a security expert said Tuesday.

Security is a major concern all around the world and according to Kaspersky Lab, Egypt seems to be responsible for three per cent of the world’s malware creation that are intended to steal computer passwords.

The Clickatel service (a service that allows SMS sending from any number) seemed a real catch not so long ago. Everybody have just played with it but soon got tired. It's time to take the next step and figure out how to call and talk to somebody using some spontaneous number. And also try to figure out how to intercept the voice traffic, pick a password for a SIP-provider account and just make the best use of remarkable VoIP technology at the same time.