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.

UserGate Proxy & Firewall - это комплексное решение для организации общего доступа в интернет из локальной сети, управления трафиком и защиты корпоративной сети от внешних угроз. В этом ролике мы покажем, как установить UGPF 5.1, и познакомимся с основными его настройками.

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.

IT administrators will be relieved to hear that next week's Microsoft Patch Tuesday will see just one bulletin addressing a single vulnerability in Windows.

Mozilla yesterday patched 10 bugs in Firefox, half of them critical, in the browser's rendering and JavaScript engines, media and video libraries, and other components.

Facebook and Twitter use skyrocketed in 2009, and naturally the social networking sites became magnets for hacker attacks and sparked other types of privacy concerns. CIOs have expressed doubts about the social networking sites, and these stories show there is good reason to be worried. Here, in chronological order, are the top 10 security and privacy stories concerning Facebook and Twitter from the past year.

Another government Web site was found defaced Sunday night - the fifth attack since last month.

With 2009 behind us, we look forward to what the next year might bring. The question of what changes might be coming in terms of data security begs answering. The ongoing battle between hackers and the teams defending sensitive information means that the techniques in use by both sides last year will be updated, and the better you are able to predict what the other side may do, the more likely you will be prepared to defend against it

With 2009 behind us, we look forward to what the next year might bring. The question of what changes might be coming in terms of data security begs answering. The ongoing battle between hackers and the teams defending sensitive information means that the techniques in use by both sides last year will be updated, and the better you are able to predict what the other side may do, the more likely you will be prepared to defend against it

According to a warning released by security researchers, the Fox Sports website, an integral part of the Fox Broadcasting Company, has gone under the control of unknown hackers. The hackers injected malware inside the 'custom error' section of the site. Two different malicious codes have been found, each as a result of a different infection.

Одним из преимуществ покупки готового ПК является то, что в нем могут быть установлены такие компоненты, которые ты бы никогда не приобрел, собирая компьютер самостоятельно. Отнюдь не потому, что они плохие – просто имея определенные бюджетные рамки мы стремимся к компромиссу между производительностью и ценой, поэтому редко приобретаем новейшие или топовые комплектующие, чья стоимость оказывается несколько завышенной в силу той самой топовости или новизны

Microsoft has already begun offering what appears to be a patch for its popular Word software, allowing it to comply with a recent court ruling which has banned the software giant from selling copyright infringing versions of the word processing product.

Cryptographers have moved closer to their goal of eavesdropping on cellphone conversations after cracking the secret code used to prevent the interception of radio signals as they travel between handsets and mobile operators' base stations.

If you steal an Xbox 360, don't forget to disable the auto sign-in feature before going online. That's the lesson high-tech crooks are probably gleaning from today's New York Post brief about a thief, 22-year-old Jeremy Gilliam, apprehended after logging into Xbox LIVE with his victim's online game id.

On Dec. 11, the bank’s information technology director Christine Lee met with Dells police to report that a person or persons gained unauthorized access to the bank’s domain registration. Between Dec. 5 and Dec. 7, changes made to the domain redirected customers accessing dellsbank.com or commbankportage.com to a fictitious web page. The page stated that “your account has been created” and that the person could access the Web site by going to another link

For two years as a researcher with security company FireEye, Atif Mushtaq worked to keep Mega-D bot malware from infecting clients' networks. In the process, he learned how its controllers operated it. Last June, he began publishing his findings online. In November, he suddenly switched from de­­fense to offense. And Mega-D--a powerful, resilient botnet that had forced 250,000 PCs to do its bidding--went down.

Думаешь .NET приложения сложны для взлома? Поверь, крекинг .NET-сборок ничуть не сложнее, а в целом значительно проще традиционных приложений. В ролике ты увидишь процесс решения одного из .NET CrackMe. На закуску продемонстрирована процедура снятия защиты с помощью шифрования.

Internet users in Northern California were unable to reach properties including Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services for a time Wednesday evening, as their DNS provider was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack. The attack came as North American consumers rushed to finish online shopping ahead of the end-of-year holiday season.

As e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle continue to rise, so follows the publishing industry's worst nightmare: e-book piracy. For years e-book piracy was the exclusive province of the determined few willing to ferret out mostly nerdy textbook titles from the Internet's dark alleys and read them on their PC. But publishers say that the problem is ballooning as e-readers grow in popularity and the appetite for mainstream e-books grows.

Security experts are warning of a highly critical new zero day vulnerability in Microsoft’s popular Internet Information Services (IIS) web server product which could allow hackers to bypass existing security measures and upload malicious code to any affected machine.

The investigation into the so-called Warmergate emails - the leaked data from the University of East Anglia’s climate change department - took a new twist last night when The Mail on Sunday tracked the stolen messages to a suspect computer which provides internet access to China.