Facebook says it has discovered the identity of "Kirllos," the hacker who claimed to be selling 1.5 million Facebook logins on the black market last month. It turns out that Kirlios didn't quite have as many accounts as he originally claimed, though he did manage to sell a number of credentials to third parties. Facebook has also updated its login system to make it more secure for users who want to make sure they maintain control of their accounts.

One of the internet's most resilient and crimeware-friendly networks was knocked offline Friday after the plug was pulled on its upstream service provider, security watchers said.

A Ukrainian national accused of helping to hack into nine US retailers and making off with data for millions of credit cards has been arrested in India, IDG News has reported.

During the 17 years this writer worked on braking and stability control systems, we occasionally joked about being able to remotely update the software in people's vehicles and bring them to a halt. At that time, the technology didn't really exist to actually do that. Today that's no longer true. Researchers the Universities of California and Washington will present a paper at a security conference in Oakland, California next week outlining how they were able to hack into vehicle computer systems.

A just-published attack tactic that bypasses the security protections of most current antivirus software is a "very serious" problem, an executive at one unaffected company said.

В последнее время мне все чаще попадаются уязвимые государственные сайты. А причина банальна: сайты даже такого уровня поручают писать непрофессионалам, за состоянием сайта не следят, саппорт емейл не проверяет. Аудит безопасности считают роскошью, хотя на самом деле это необходимость, а также залог успеха и пользователей.

Microsoft released just two updates on Tuesday as part of a light patch Tuesday, especially in comparison with April's 11 bulletins.

Like convenience stores and fast-food restaurants, phishing is no longer a mom-and-pop operation, according to a study released today.

Researchers have uncovered a botnet that uses compromised Web servers instead of the usual personal computers to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

When Sony issued a recent PlayStation 3 update removing the device's ability to install alternate operating systems like Linux, it did so to protect copyrighted content—but several research projects suffered collateral damage.

An Indian outsourcing firm is to run one of its data handling centres in a local prison as part of a new public/private partnership.

Scientists have devised a chip design to ensure microprocessors haven't been surreptitiously equipped with malicious backdoors that could be used to siphon sensitive information or receive instructions from adversaries.

Google предлагает три сервиса для перевода документов, но ни один из них не работает достаточно хорошо. Вы можете загрузить документы в Google Translate, но HTML файл на выходе не может быть правильно сохранен и не будет содержать картинки

Когда каждый второй номер ругаешь Internet Explorer, хочется посмотреть в глаза тому человеку, кто этот браузер делает. Я посмотрел! :) В апреле в Москву прилетел Алекс Могилевский — один из архитекторов IE и специалистов по стандартам, который предлагает и утверждает технологии в рамках своей работы в консорциуме W3C от имени Microsoft

Очень часто при взломе необходимо обнаружить скрытые файлы и директории на сервере. Например, спрятанную CMS-админку, файлики с конфигами или какой-то другой критической информацией, которые не были должным образом спрятаны или удалены