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A Romanian national pleaded guilty on Thursday to a charge related to a phishing operation that sought to defraud customers of banks such as Citibank and Wells Fargo, and of Web sites such as eBay.

Exploit code targeting the Internet Explorer vulnerability used against Google and other companies has gone public, increasing the chances that broader attacks will soon follow.

Router manufacturer D-Link admitted Friday that some of its routers have a vulnerability that could allow hackers access to a device's administrative settings, but it has issued patches.

An Associate Press (AP) exclusive tells the story of a glitch that allowed AT&T wireless users to log into the Facebook accounts of other users. This glitch was “the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T”.

The new description of the attack raises questions about the security of Google's increasingly popular computing "cloud," a term that refers to the clusters of servers it uses to store user's information. Google, however, insisted that the cloud is safe, and it will continue to use it for its business operations.

Many IT managers swear by the following rule: never deploy a version of Windows until the first service pack has been released. That way you can be sure that any huge bugs have been resolved before committing to the new platform.

Долгое время визитной карточкой Windows служил графический интерфейс, а желающим поработать в консоли приходилось довольствоваться весьма урезанным функционально cmd.exe. Появление PowerShell с гибким языком сценариев изменило ситуацию к лучшему

More details have emerged on the Google hack which has prompted the firm to threaten to pull out of China, including evidence linking the attack to a similar hack on 100 Silicon Valley firms last year, and the possibility that Adobe's corporate network has also been hacked by China.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on the Chinese government to explain the details of the attacks Google claims it, and around 20 other companies, suffered in December.

Today McAfee, the world’s leading dedicated security company, and Facebook announced an unprecedented collaboration that will provide additional security protection to a significant portion of the Internet population. Through this partnership, the two companies have jointly created security solutions that include McAfee security software, a custom scanning and repair tool, and consumer friendly education materials that Facebook will make available to its more than 350 million users

Evgeny Legerov, the 30-year-old IT security researcher, founder of Intevydis, the Moscow-based IT security consultancy, has caused a quiet storm in security research circles, after saying he plans to release zero-day flaws on a range of popular applications, but without having notified the vendors concerned.

An interview with an anonymous Facebook employee is flying around the web and burning up Twitter, but is the info discussed really anything surprising? The employee revealed that the company records everything their users post, upload and view, and that their data is kept even if they delete it.

After taking a long hiatus, trojan dialers that can rack up thousands of dollars in charges are back by popular demand.