New tools capable of quickly finding, gathering and correlating information about individuals from social networking sites and other public sources are giving online scammers a powerful new weapon, say security researchers.

Microsoft today confirmed that it is looking into reports that November's security updates have triggered a black screen on some Windows users' PCs.

Насколько серьезную опасность может представлять собой инъекция в Web-приложении? Наверняка ты не раз слышал, о дефейсах, сливе инфы и прочей пакости. Что делать, если сервер надежно спрятан за DMZ? Можно сложить руки и довольствоваться малым, убедив себя, что админы молодцы и сделать больше ничего нельзя

IBM is set to buy database security firm Guardium for $225m.

The US Department of Justice announced today that a California man has pled guilty to trafficking counterfeit computer chips to the US military. Neil Fehaly agreed to cooperate with the government as part of his plea deal, and he faces up to five years in prison for passing off bogus versions of chips from Intel, VIA, STMicro, Analog Devices, and other chipmakers to the Navy. These counterfeits, some of which were outright fakes from China, and others of which were "remarked" versions of cheap chips that had been made to look like more expensive parts, have gone into countless critical military systems since the scam started, possibly endangering the lives of military personnel and civilians.

UK home secretary Alan Johnson has decided that Gary McKinnon should be sent to the US to face trial on hacking charges.

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

The 21-year-old hacker who wrote the first iPhone worm has landed a job developing software for the phones.

Microsoft released data collected from an FTP-server honeypot, showing that attempts to guess passwords continue to focus on the low-hanging fruit: passwords with an average length of eight characters, with "password" and "123456" being the most common.

Ubisoft said that the website of its popular video game Splinter Cell had been hacked on Thursday. However circumstantial evidence suggests the hack is more likely to be a publicity stunt than a genuine cyber assault.

A malicious spam campaign that attempts to harvest online game passwords under the guise of messages containing smutty photos is doing the rounds.

Customers of an UK-based web host called Daily Internet Services, had their websites defaced by hackers, who replaced their index pages with an image featuring Tux, the Linux penguin mascot. The company has restored the affected pages from back-ups and is currently investigating the attack.

Britain faces a new threat from the sharp increase in cyber-crime with sophisticated hackers leaving the government far behind in its attempts to catch them, according to the world's leading expert in online security.

Hackers could evade most existing antivirus protection by hiding malicious code within ordinary text, according to security researchers.

Windows 7 has a had a very successful launch and has sold more copies than OSX during the second and third weeks in November. Overall sales of Windows 7 are projected to oversell both OSX and Windows Vista next year.

В предыдущей статье было продемонстрировано, как тривиальная инъекция может привести к гибели сервера, а точнее, к получению контроля над ним злоумышленником. Тогда мне в значительной степени повезло, так как доступ к БД через скуль открывал завесу к паролям от FTP

MacOS по праву считается одной из самых красивых и самых удобных операционных систем. Это основано, прежде всего, на удобном интерфейсе и "фишках", которые этот интерфейс содержит. Одной из таких "фишек" являются виджеты — удобные мини-приложения, каждое из которых выполняет свою, строго определенную функцию

A call for intercepted data to be destroyed "as soon as it is no longer required" has been described as shortsighted by the director of one of the country's leading forensic computer labs.

Microsoft has been issuing takedown notices for publicly hosting its leaked Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) tool. The company sent off "Demand for Immediate Take-Down: Notice of Infringing Activity" to companies hosting websites that offered the tool. The e-mails all start with the following standard statement: "Microsoft has received information that the domain listed above, which appears to be on servers under your control, is offering unlicensed copies of, or is engaged in other unauthorized activities relating to copyrighted works published by Microsoft."

Google has defended its free Analytics web traffic service against arguments that it conflicts with web users' privacy.

The blaze of publicity that accompanied the release of the first iPhone worms this month has sparked interest in selling anti-malware products for the device. However no such security products currently exist and Apple shows little inclination in licensing any that do get developed.

25 августа 2009-го года был выпущен релиз очередной версии Embarcadero RAD Studio. Как и предыдущая, новая RAD Studio 2010 включила в себя три полноценных продукта, предназначенных для разработки программного обеспечения - Delphi 2010, C++ Builder 2010 и Delphi Prism 2010

As you remember - a Symantec-run website was vulnerable to Blind SQL Injection problems that reportedly exposes a wealth of potentially sensitive information. Now we have a full story...

Malware and financial fraud were among the chief "growth threats" posed to businesses in 2009, according to a new study from the Computer Security Institute that will be published next week.

A survey of 104 enterprise mobility professionals showed that more than two thirds of European organizations surveyed are not fully aware what sensitive data is stored within employees' mobile devices.

Microsoft has issued a security advisory for a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability that emerged yesterday.

So-called Spam King Alan Rasky has been sentenced to over four years in prison for his involvement in a ‘pump and dump’ stock fraud.

Facebook administrators have blocked a clickjacking exploit that displayed images of a scantily clad woman on profile pages without first prompting the user for permission.

Employees know it's illegal to steal company data, but they're prepared to do it anyway. Companies know their employees are a chief threat to their data, but most aren't doing much about it.

A bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is causing more than 50 million files stored online to leak potentially sensitive information that could compromise user privacy, a security researcher said.

Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch models may account for as much as 32 per cent of mobile data traffic worldwide.

Cisco has pushed out a new iPhone app that helps IT managers respond to newly-detected security threats by the seat (pocket) of their pants.

A Symantec-run website was vulnerable to Blind SQL Injection problems that reportedly exposes a wealth of potentially sensitive information.

A particularly nasty computer virus has been discovered in China and the government there is warning that it could spread fast.

Telling the story of Google Chrome and how it inspired an operating system.

Отгремела презентация Google ее давно ожидаемой ОС Google Chrome OS, которая основана на легковесной версии Debian Linux и запускает при своем старте только кастомизированный браузер Chrome, чтобы вы могли запустить Gmail, Google Calendar и другие сайты

Большую часть времени работы за компьютером вы не видите обоев картинку на рабочем столе, но все-равно нас постоянно волнует какая она. Мы тщательно выбираем ее под разрешение нашего монитора или мониторов, и долго гордимся собой, сделав правильный выбор

LinuxMCE представляет собой полнофункциональную систему автоматизации дома. Она способна управлять всеми доступными девайсами, начиная от обычного (ну не совсем обычного) выключателя света до устройств безопасности (сигнализация и видеонаблюдение), климат-контроля и бытовых приборов

On Feb. 5, 2008, GEXA Energy terminated Kim's employment as a database administrator and permanently revoked his access to all GEXA Energy facilities, computer networks, and information technology systems, the report says. Approximately three months later, Kim remotely accessed the GEXA Energy computer network and GEXA Energy Management System (GEMS) database.