Booby-trapped PDF files, posing as messages from the US Department of Defense, were emailed to US defence contractors last week. The document refers to a real conference due to be held in Las Vegas in March.

Anti-Semitic hackers shut down the London Jewish Chronicle website for 18 hours until Monday morning and posted an Arab flag, hate slogans and messages from the Koran. The computer vandals called themselves “Palestinian Mujaheeds.”

Security measures such as the use of one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication -- considered among the most robust forms of IT defenses -- are no longer enough to protect online banking systems against fraud, a Gartner Inc. report warns.

Сегодня мы рассмотрим распаковку (далее анпак) игры, защищённой StarForce (далее старка, стар). Сразу хочу развеять миф о неломаемости этой защиты и поведать вам, что стар сможет распаковать даже ребёнок.

Компьютерная преступность — очень прибыльный и быстро развивающийся вид преступного бизнеса. Начавшийся в этом месяце в США судебный процесс над международной бандой хакеров, обвиняемых в краже на рекордную сумму $9,4 млн,— наглядный тому пример

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.

Silverpac showcased an intelligent thermostat as CES that uses an interactive touchscreen interface. The system features a programmable 7 day cycle the is managed through a 7 inch display that illustrates how energy is being used in the home. The system can even isolate the energy use of specific appliances and suggest alternative use patterns to help save energy. The system also has Wi-Fi, allowing it to send usage data straight to the utility company.

The French agency tasked with enforcing strict anti-piracy regulations has been left severely embarrassed after the revelation that its logo contains pirated material.

Adobe has issued a new round of security updates for its Reader and Acrobat applications.

A new encryption scheme for protecting 3G phone networks hasn't even gone into commercial use and already cryptographers have cracked it - at least theoretically.

Hackers have stolen the login credentials for more than 8,300 customers of small New York bank after breaching its security and accessing a server that hosted its online banking system.

Microsoft today issued just one security update for Windows, the lowest number on a Patch Tuesday since January 2009.

It seems that hackers and malware authors are using new techniques to infect your home or office PC, as veteran IT security vendor Sophos has spotted a rash of fake Amazon `shipping email updates' over the weekend.

The diplomatic row between Israel and Turkey is now spilling over into cyberspace. Turkish hackers infiltrated the Jerusalemonline.com news Web site on Tuesday.

The South Korean military will ban the use of USB flash drives in an attempt to thwart increasing cyber attacks, officials at the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said Jan. 12.

Romanian hackers continue to have a field day with SQL injection flaws in major Website applications: A vulnerability in a U.S. Army Website that leaves the database wide open to an attacker has now been exposed.

Сегодня мы с тобой свершим переворот в сложившихся устоях мира. Наверняка, ты уже имел дело с web-shell'ами, такими как r57, c99, WSO2 и иже с ними. Так, вот о чем я — уверен, зайдя на свежезалитый шелл, ты первым делом смотришь свои права в системе, а именно – результат команды "id" в nix-like системах

It seems that China’s most popular search engine, with a market share of over 77% has been hacked by Iranian hackers. At present, the website is unavailable, but we have found a screenshot from Twitter user Budi Putra.

BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking.

Suspicious applications that may have stolen users' online banking credentials have appeared on the Android Market, the Google-run app store for its mobile operating system.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is investigating a set of serious security vulnerabilities in supposedly secure USB flash drives revealed by a German security firm last week.

Security giant McAfee warned today that spammers are increasingly exploiting online hosting companies that provide free domains and web hosting, in order to bypass anti-spam filters.

Thales has announced too new security hardware platforms aimed at smaller businesses.

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Сегодня расскажу вам о простой, но очень замечательной возможности усиления звонка телефона при помощи стеклянного стакана.

About 30,000 customers of the Cheshire-based ISP Vispa were forced offline for almost 12 hours today by a DDOS attack traced to the Baltic state of Latvia.

If you're surfing the web from a wireless router supplied by some of the biggest device makers, there's a chance Samy Kamkar can identify your geographic location.

IT administrators could be busy next Tuesday, after enterprise software giant Oracle announced a hefty monthly patch update, with 24 new security vulnerability fixes set to be released across hundreds of its products.