A number of BitDefender users, whose 64-bit Windows systems stopped working or were unable to be rebooted after updating their security programs, vented their frustration by flooding the antivirus (AV) vendor's forum pages over the weekend.

The UK arm of the Pirate Party has posted its 2010 manifesto, saying that it will focus efforts on copyright reform, privacy protection and freedom of speech.

Russian authorities have nabbed the man accused of masterminding a coordinated global ATM heist of $9.5 million from Atlanta-based card processing company RBS WorldPay.

It was supposed to display how the modern Conservative Party could harness the power of the internet. Instead, the Tories’ latest attempt to engage the web backfired spectacularly.

The German government has issued an official statement advising people not to use Firefox pending the release of a patch to defend against a critical unpatched vulnerability.

Прошлой осенью мы уже составляли для тебя календарь интересных хакерских мероприятий на осень-зиму 2009 – в него вошли самые заметные форумы, конференции, lan-пати и прочие ивенты.

Мы все используем смайлики в Твиттере или в чатах. Но часто мы не можем написать ничего сложнее :) или ;). А теперь посмотрите, что понапридумывали японцы! И все это в юникоде и можно юзать в Твиттере!

Fiesta, Fire-Pack, IcePack, Tornado и множество других связок сплоитов знает мир хакеров, но ни одна из них не написана на Python'е. В одноименной статье мы показали, как этот пробел может быть устранен. А теперь посмотрим на получившийся сплоит-пак в действии.

The maker of Energizer brand batteries is continuing to serve its customers a file laced with a data-stealing trojan more than 24 hours after the company was notified of the threat and almost two weeks after it promised to fix the problem.

Google has released a new development tool aimed at uncovering security holes in web applications.

Mozilla is preparing to release Firefox 3.6.2, which will address a critical security vulnerability present in Firefox 3.6. The vulnerability in question, was reported by security researcher Evgeny Legerov last month. However, his initial reluctance to directly communicate with Mozilla prolonged the development time for the patch.

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series emulator has been cracked.

Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and several giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a court filing Thursday night.

Microsoft is continuing to look into ways to make social computing services part of business users’ lives with a new pilot program for something called “OfficeTalk”.

The annual Pwn2Own contest starts today at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada.

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile devices.

Среди разнообразия Linux-систем особенно выделяются специализированные дистрибутивы-роутеры. Они, как правило, имеют небольшой размер, просты и понятны в установке и настройке, а имеющиеся функции позволяют подключить к интернету домашнюю/корпоративную сеть, защитив ее от сетевых атак и вирусов

Пентест - это искусство. Но даже здесь есть масса рутинных операций, которые стоило бы автоматизировать. Вот взять хотя бы проверку параметров, которые передаются скрипту. Не заниматься же подстановкой всевозможных значений (в GET и POST запросах, кукисах и т.д.) вручную? Незачем! Для этого есть замечательные инструменты для автоматического пентеста

US net crime loss complaints almost doubled in value from $265m in 2008 to reach $560m last year, according to official figures.

Wikileaks presents a “threat to the U.S. Army” and publishes “potentially actionable information” for targeting military personnel, according to a classified intelligence report posted Monday on the whistleblowing site.

Scammers using a Brazilian domain name have targeted customers of large Australian domain name and hosting company NetRegistry, seeking usernames and passwords in order to launch new malware attacks.

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams told a gathering of the technology faithful on Monday that notorious censorship firewalls in countries such as China will give way to online innovations.

Nearly two thirds of virtualised servers will be less secure than the physical machines they replace over the course of the next two years, according to analyst firm Gartner.

It used to be that cyber criminals were people with a highly technical skill set, but this is not the norm anymore. This fact became obvious some two weeks ago when news of the takedown of the Mariposa botnet and the three men behind it reached the global public.

Spending on IT security is returning to pre-recession rates, according to the latest study from analyst firm Canalys.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has hacked into 29 websites affiliated with US espionage networks, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Sunday.

Вы часто просматриваете свои RSS-подписки? Согласитесь, это отнимает некоторое количество времени. Зато, когда вы едете на работу, это же время тратится бездарно и впустую. Конечно, многие читают электронные книги и журналы – это делает время в транспорте осмысленным

Итак, наш дорогой друг и читатель, ты решил сделать себе беспроводной Интернет. Или беспроводную сеть с другом, живущим далеко. Первая проблема, встающая перед тобой, – плохой уровень сигнала. И причиной этому может быть все что угодно! Деревья, здания, расстояние от одной точки до другой

Microsoft has been forced to admit that a security update for its popular Excel application caused non-English text to appear on some users’ screens.

The latest version of the Zeus do-it-yourself crimeware kit goes to great lengths to thwart would-be pirates by introducing a hardware-based product activation scheme similar to what's found in Microsoft Windows.

Password-cracking tools optimised to work with SSDs have achieved speeds up to 100 times quicker than previously possible.

Computer hackers linked to the Russian mafia robbed Royal Bank of Scotland customers of £6million in 12 hours.

Computer hackers linked to the Russian mafia robbed Royal Bank of Scotland customers of £6million in 12 hours.

Andrew Ashley, 30, and Nimesh Bhagat, 31, stole more than £33,000 by infiltrating software controlling remote betting machines covering live roulette wheels at four Gala Casinos in London, a court heard.

Targeting point-of-sale devices with malicious software is standard practice, as the wave of retail hackings over the last few years have shown. But targeting them with malicious hardware -- that requires another level of brazenness altogether.

A security researcher has credited McAfee for helping him to develop exploit code that cracks open an unpatched flaw in older versions of Internet Explorer.

Fake antivirus programs that encourage Web users to part with their hard-earned cash and download hoax security software is likely to be the most costly scam of 2010, says McAfee.

South Korea said Friday it would launch a probe into security systems of major retailer Shinsegae and 24 other companies after private data on some 20 million customers was leaked.

PayPal users have reacted angrily to the suspension of Cryptome's account by the e-payment company and are using Cryptome's website to display their emails, cancelling their PayPal accounts.Although PayPal has now restored Cryptome's account, it was suspended for several days following Microsoft's action against the whistle-blowing site and the temporary shutdown of Cryptome by its hosting company.Faced with criticism over its heavy-handed approach, Microsoft claimed afterwards that it had not wished Cryptome to be shut down "While Microsoft has a good faith belief that the distribution of the file that was made available at that address infringes Microsoft's copyrights, it was not Microsoft's intention that the takedown request result in the disablement of web access to the entire cryptome.org website on which the file was made available," said the company's counsel, Evan Cox.

Retro gaming fans are being targeted in a new con designed to infect computers with a Trojan linked to scareware scams.