Adobe has released updates for its popular Reader and Acrobat software that fix 17 separate vulnerabilities including one that could enable hackers to take control of a user’s PC.

New research pours scorn on the comforting but erroneous belief that Windows surfers who avoid smut and wares on the web are likely to avoid exposure to malware.

Strathclyde Police from Glasgow, UK, was compelled to shut down its website because of the fear of virus attack from Chinese hackers.

A data breach of computers at the University of Maine’s counseling center allowed hackers to access not only the Social Security numbers and dates of birth of students and alumni who have sought its services in the past eight years but clinical information as well.

The FBI has admitted defeat in attempts to break the open source encryption used to secure hard drives seized by Brazilian police during a 2008 investigation.

It looks like Steve Jobs is no longer alone in his crusade to rid the world of Adobe's video player software Flash, as the adult video industry turns towards the open HTML5 standard.

In a blog post on Monday, Barbara Gordon, who heads Microsoft's customer service and support, argued that her company's offerings beat Google's hands down.

Artemisa is an open source VoIP/SIP-specific honeypot software designed to connect to a VoIP enterprise domain as a user-agent backend in order to detect malicious activity at an early stage. Moreover, the honeypot can play a role in the real-time adjustment of the security policies of the enterprise domain where it is deployed.

Как и в ранее опубликованных статьях данного цикла, в целях монопольного и беспрепятственного взаимодействия программы с оборудованием при работе с предлагаемым примером, автор применил "древнюю" технологию отладки под DOS

В любой организации есть юзвери, которые пытаются использовать ресурсы Сети в своих целях. В результате, несмотря на установленные антивирусы и брандмауэры, клиентские системы начинают кишить вирусами, троянами, малварью и левыми программами, периодически вызывающими сбои в работе Windows

Though hardware costs for the iPhone 4 have risen slightly, Apple is still expected to make a strong profit on the handset.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has disrupted a long-running online scam that allowed offshore fraudsters to steal millions of dollars from U.S. consumers -- often by taking just pennies at a time.

A court in central France has convicted a young Frenchman accused of infiltrating Twitter and peeping at the account of President Barack Obama, and given him a five-month suspended prison sentence.

An insecurity study into the use of SSL certificates has revealed that it is about as effective as an English team preventing a German striker from getting a ball in the back of the net.

A clandestine network of Russian spies in the United States used private Wi-Fi networks, flash memory sticks, and text messages concealed in graphical images to exchange information, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Malware (malicious software) continues to be the No 1 threat to personal computers, according to Security Intelligence Report version 8 (SIRv8), released by Microsoft Corp.

TD Bank is encouraging its business customers to do their part in preventing fraud by being smart money managers.

A total of $465,000 was recently stolen from California-based Village View Escrow via 26 consecutive wire transfers.

Developers have plugged a critical hole in a PNG reference library used by many browsers to render graphics file.

Благодаря своей открытости, Twitter способен тесно интегрироваться со сторонними приложениями с целью обмена данными. В частности, можно выполнять экспорт твитов для их резервного копирования на случай сбоев Twitter и для навигации по ним

Сегодня мы разберемся с новейшей методикой преодоления hardware DEP и ASLR для IE8 — JIT Spray. Разработаем простой прототип эксплойта, а также свой собственный JIT-шеллкод.

 A Santa Ana man was arrested Tuesday after authorities say he hacked into dozens of computers and demanded sexually explicit videos from female victims in exchange for keeping their personal information private.

South-African physicists are working on a technology called 'Quantum Cryptography' to thwart hackers from leaking out information about the FIFA World Cup.

A recently published e-book penned by the self-proclaimed “world's No. 1 hacker” is rocking the security community with back-and-forth allegations of plagiarism, racism, and even threats against a security podcaster and his family.

The community-driven Fedora 13 Linux distribution has been reviewed by eWEEK, which was highly impressed with its cutting-edge enterprise features. The review praises Fedora security and permissions features such as the AccountsDialog user management utility, and it also likes the new command line interface for NetworkManager.

To clarify from the start, this isn’t a release of any sort but rather news on an upcoming release. Although we’ve heard a lot about jailbreaking from several different hackers, Geohot has been rather quiet. This doesn’t mean that he isn’t working on anything. George Hotz (Geohot) has currently been in France for the Nuit Du Hack conference. An event started in 2003 by Hackerz Voice team, and inspired by world famous DEF CON, “Nuit Du Hack” is one of the oldest French underground hacking conferences to date.

With corporate budgets still reeling from the economic downturn of 2008 and 2009, a senior analyst at the research firm Gartner is urging IT managers to take a shrewder posture on information security, leveraging free or lower-cost solutions to shore up data systems without breaking the bank.

Reports are coming in of a systematic hack of Twitter accounts – apparently owned by Israeli internet users – by Turkish hackers.

Вы бы хотели одним прыжком перелетать через автомобили, замечать врагов на расстоянии нескольких километров и сгибать руками стальные балки? Надо полагать, что да, но, увы, это нереально. Пока нереально...

Казуальная игра — компьютерная игра, предназначенная для широкого круга пользователей. Сам термин "казуальная" происходит от латинского слова "casualis", что означает "случайный". Таким образом, казуальная игра — это игра, в которую играют от случая к случаю, между делом, чаще всего, чтобы как-то убить время

В прошлой статье я кратко познакомил тебя с архитектурой AMD-V. В этой мы продолжим разбираться с нелегкой темой. Я намерено упустил множество важных деталей относительно механизма работы гипервизора, дабы с первого раза не перегружать твой мозг большими объемами информации

Many Turkish Internet users are very unhappy with the growing level of censorship online, particularly when it comes to the blocking of Google services. Earlier this month, services such as Google Translate, Google Docs and Google Books became inaccessible in Turkey following a request that Turkish ISPs block access to IP addresses associated with YouTube.

Microsoft has teamed up with the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), with the support of Accuity, the American Bankers Association, Anti-Phishing Working Group, Citizens Bank, eBay, Federal Trade Commission, National Consumers League and PayPal, to launch a new programme that is designed to help mitigate potential losses due to online fraud and account compromise.

A 21-year-old hacker was banged up yesterday for frauds netting him a Porsche, £40,000 in cash and £30,000 in gold bullion.

Google has introduced a command line utility for accessing various Chocolate Factory services, including YouTube, Blogger, Google Docs, Calender, and Contacts. And an army of text-interface obsessives have responded with glee.

Local internet service provider (ISP) Druknet is currently recovering, after 50 of its websites were hacked early yesterday.

Ex-hacker and alleged "war crimes collaborator" Adrian Lamo has garnered a great deal of attention lately from his role in outing Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning, a young U.S. Military official who was leaking sensitive documents, including some which Lamo believed endangered national security.

Security vendor Trend Micro has warned of a new botnet doing the rounds in Belgium, which was being used to steal the log-in credentials of online share trading platforms in order to manipulate stock prices.

Те, кто часто пишет тексты уже давно перешли в онлайн. Текстовые процессоры, с которыми можно работать в браузере имеют очевидные преимущества: бесплатность (если только не говорить о детище Microsoft), скорость работы, постоянный бекап, доступ отовсюду

Cops across Europe, the US and Australia have collared 178 people in an operation to smash an international fake credit card production network turning over more than £17m.