An upstart Trojan horse program has decided to take on its much-larger rival by stealing data and then removing the malicious program from infected computers.

As the world becomes increasingly dependent on information technology and digital communications, persistent vulnerabilities — some of which have been known for 50 years — continue to expose the world’s networks and applications to attacks.

Payroll processing firm Ceridian this week is advising more than 1,900 customer companies that a hacker managed to access the company's Internet payroll system in late December, potentially compromising the sensitive data of more than 27,000 workers.

While you're enjoying the Olympics a cyber thief could be plundering your BlackBerry or smartphone thanks to that new Bluetooth headset you just bought to comply with B.C.'s new hands-free driving laws.

Hackers have figured out a way to enable the Motorola Droid to play host to a variety of Linux-based USB devices. This means that the smartphone can directly connect and control printers, TV tuners, video cameras, and many other devices that speak Linux. The mod was created by Mike Baker of OpenWRT and Mike Kershaw from Kismet, and shared with the public by Chris Paget in this blog.

Pirates may have their illegally downloaded copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, however their captain has been fined $1.5 Million in damages.

iPhone users beware - an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating Apple.com, attempts to trick users into submitting sensitive device information, with the scammers in a perfect position to use the data in a countless number of fraudulent variations.

Microsoft has released the February edition of its Patch Tuesday security update. The latest release includes 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities.

A Las Vegas software developer has been charged over a software cookie scam that left eBay severely out of pocket.

Researchers discovered a new banking trojan that is being used to steal the financial credentials of customers at approximately 15 large- and mid-size U.S. banks.

Satellites can bring a digital signal to places where the Internet seems like a miracle: off-the-grid desert solar farms, the Arctic or an aircraft carrier at sea. But in beaming data to and from the world's most remote places, satellite Internet may also offer its signal to a less benign recipient: any digital miscreant within thousands of miles.

A consortium of security and infrastructure management organisations has launched a new project to help secure Domain Name System (DNS) queries.

A Las Vegas web developer has been charged with fleecing eBay out of tens of thousands of dollars by selling a program that planted fraudulent web cookies on the PCs of people visiting the online auctioneer.

If you think that ensuring one’s Internet privacy is the only mean of the Tor software then you are wrong twice. First off, its suballocated network can be used for different purposes. And secondly, it’s not as safe as it’s painted. Alas.

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McAfee’s latest threat report for the fourth quarter of 2009 saw a drop in spam over the period, although the year ended with overall amounts rising.

Top flight outsourcing firm Tata Consulting Services appeared to have lost control of its website to hackers today, with the domain apparently being touted for sale.

Oracle issued an emergency patch for its WebLogic Server almost two weeks after a white-hat hacker disclosed a vulnerability that allows criminals to remotely execute commands on the webserver with no authentication necessary.

With the PwnageTool app now updated for Mac OS X users, most of the iPhone Dev Team’s set of jailbreak and unlock tools now supports iPhone firmware 3.1.3, the latest update from Apple. Although Softpedia does not condone jailbreaking, those who do wish to employ these tools and hack their iPhones should at least follow a few guidelines, so they don’t brick their devices.

Proprietary vendors are using "anti-features", features that no user would ever want, to protect intellectual property, Benjamin “Mako” Hill, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the linux.conf.au open source conference last month.

The coming May 2010 automated election is surrounded by controversy and a number of technological fears. It all started with the defacement of some government websites and now the much talked about importation of 5,000 jamming devices. All these sounded new to the ordinary people, but to those who belong to the I.T. industry - especially those who are involved in security knows that cyber attacks happen everyday, and the impact / cost is staggering.

US technology titans IBM and Intel have rolled out powerful new computer chips designed for businesses continually demanding more from networks and data centers.

Какое-то время назад у бегающих гиков была забава — купить комплект Nike+ (которые были у нас в основном с разряженными несменяемыми батарейками) с iPod nano да со специальными кроссовками Nike. Тогда каждый бегающий гик вступал в социальную интернет-пузомерку и мог соревноваться, побеждать, покорять мировые рейтинги бегая вокруг своего дома.

В этом видео мы покажем, насколько просто может быть взломана беспроводная сеть, даже если она защищена WPA. Единственное условие - перехваченный handshake (пакет аутентификации). Для того чтобы получить его, мы временно отсоединим беспроводного клиента, послав в сеть левый пакет деаутентификации

Microsoft's chief strategy officer has suggested that people should undergo mandatory training before being allowed online.

Printer manufacturer Ricoh has launched a new document security solution designed to help firms monitor printer usage and lock down access to sensitive documents.

The massive Operation Aurora cyber attack last month, apparently launched from command and control server computers in Taiwan, is part of a larger and sustained effort that has been stealing data for years.

The massive Operation Aurora cyber attack last month, apparently launched from command and control server computers in Taiwan, is part of a larger and sustained effort that has been stealing data for years.

Veracode today released Blackberry-specific spyware, which the code-review specialist intends as a “call for defensive research” to show that the BlackBerry is vulnerable to spyware problems.

Salute, my dear admirer of the Backstreet Boys band! Today I will tell you an interesting story about how backstreetboys.com, myspace.com/backstreetboys, and also the twitter.com/backstreetboys (the main network resources of your favorite band) had capitulated like a house on fire, with no fight. It all started with the fact that one day the notorious column editor alluded to continue the theme of hacking the well-regarded foreign celebrities

В случае успешного взлома сервер может быть использован для рассылки спама, распространения вареза, организации атак на другие хосты, кроме того, могут быть украдены или уничтожены важные корпоративные данные. Конечно, своевременный бэкап позволит восстановить все в первоначальное состояние, но не факт, что через некоторое время инцидент не повторится вновь

An analysis of over 1900 penetration tests and 200 actual security breaches over the last year has show that over four out of five security problems come from third party suppliers.

Security researchers have defeated vulnerability protections baked into the latest versions of Internet Explorer, demonstrating that it's possible to poke holes in a safety net that's widely relied on to keep end users safe from drive-by exploits.

IT security firm Sophos today released a list of the top ten countries hosting malware on the web, indicating which territories are the biggest offenders. Sophos detected over 50,000 newly infected web pages every day with its findings revealing that the problem of compromised websites is truly global.

After removing Google's Android driver code from the Linux kernel, Novell Fellow and Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has argued that the mobile OS is incompatible with the project's main tree.

A growing emphasis by computer hackers on stealing payment card data from hotels and resorts and their increasingly sophisticated malicious software and attack methods are two highlights in a new report from security consulting and technology firm Trustwave Holdings Inc.

Activists have long grumbled about the privacy implications of the legal "backdoors" that networking companies like Cisco build into their equipment--functions that let law enforcement quietly track the Internet activities of criminal suspects. Now an IBM researcher has revealed a more serious problem with those backdoors: They don't have particularly strong locks, and consumers are at risk.

Christopher Tarnovsky, who operates the California-based consulting firm Flylogic Engineering, must strike dread into the heart of anyone working on secure computer chips.

A bug in the design of the Oracle database -- the world's top-selling software for storing electronic information -- could allow hackers to break into private databases via the Internet, said David Litchfield, chief research scientist of NGSSoftware Ltd, a UK-based computer security company.

Sticking to the rules of the cat-and-mouse game between the iPhone Dev Team and Apple, the former has been able to confirm that iPhone OS 3.1.3 IPSWs are jailbreakable by the group’s redsn0w jailbreak tool. Supported devices currently include the iPhone 2G (first-gen iPhones), iPhone 3G, and iPod touch 2G (second-gen iPod touch).