A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept attack that exploits critical vulnerabilities that Apple patched on Thursday. The vulns stem from bugs in the Java runtime environment that allow attackers to remotely execute malicious code. Sun Microsystems patched the flaws early last month.

A popular Russian tabloid's website came under the attack of hackers, who destroyed the site's entire contents, including the editorial interface and all of the daily's archives, the editor-in-chief said.

German researchers have devised five methods that determined attackers can use to bypass hard-drive encryption in recent versions of Microsoft operating systems.

Developers of the Linux kernel have patched a bug that allowed attackers to remotely crash a machine by sending it malicious Wi-Fi signals.

Microsoft will fix 12 security flaws, including a critical Internet Explorer 8 zero-day vulnerability, with a total of six bulletins in its upcoming Patch Tuesday release.

Earier this week the Spanish Government announced plans to reform its copyright legislation so it can shut down file-sharing sites more easily. In a response to this announcement, hackers have now defaced the website of the country’s leading anti-piracy outfit, Promusicae, replacing it with a manifesto on the rights of Internet users.

Security researchers have published reports - which the company later confirmed - that Adobe's Illustrator application for graphic designers is vulnerable to a particular type of malicious exploit that could allow remote code execution on the machines.

Disgruntled employees in the U.K. have a financial incentive to tell on their employer if they suspect the software they've been using is improperly licensed.

We in the media love to stick it to the IT security bad guys: the notorious hackers or the bumbling civil servants who put nothing more than a first-class stamp on a disc containing millions of personal files.

As servers and desktops become too tough to crack, malicious hackers will turn their attentions to smart phones such as the iPhone, former Microsoft security officer Howard Schmidt told a gathering of security professionals in Sydney today.

More than 1,200 bogus websites that defraud shoppers across Britain by claiming to sell cut-price goods have been shut down in a major police operation ahead of the busy Christmas period.

Apple released the two updates, Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1 and Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 6, on Thursday. Both include a number of security fixes for the cross-platform technology, with the Leopard update being the heftier of the two, weighing in at 122MB.

У каждого из команды ][ - свои предпочтения по части софта и утилит для пентеста. Посовещавшись, выяснилось, что выбор так разнится, что можно составить настоящий джентльменский набор из проверенных программ. На том и решили

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman and three universities announced on Tuesday that they would form a research consortium to find and develop solutions to current cybersecurity challenges.

Intel has released the first beta of the software developers kit (SDK) for the Atom platform.

More than five per cent of the sites on the web could cause security risks, with Cameroon's .cm domain the most dangerous, according to the third annual State of the Mal Web report from security giant McAfee, released today.

In Denmark it's legal to make backup copies of your DVDs, but illegal to break the DRM that prevents copying them. This annoyed a guy so much that he decided to turn himself in for ripping his own DVD collection.

As law enforcement agents increase their reliance on Facebook and MySpace to nab suspects, legal watchdogs are demanding that officials disclose exactly how they use social networking sites.

Mozilla updated its nearly-baked Thunderbird 3 Tuesday night, fixing one critical error and addressing three others. The critical bug fix affects the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 2. It had caused the previous version to hang on shutdown, consume too much memory, and close all IMAP connections.

OK, so it's technically impossible to beat a game that has no defined ending, but World of Warcraft player "Little Gray" is the first to finish virtually every single thing that the land of Azeroth currently has to offer.

At a media gathering Wednesday, the security vendor released a report outlining security threats enterprises and consumers should be mindful of in 2010. Of these, the security risk faced by everyday Internet users is likely to increase as criminals look to trick people into downloading malware through means such as an innocent-looking URL link or videos and pictures from unknown sources.

Постоянный доступ к всемирной сети является приоритетным из направлений не только в области бизнеса, но и для обычных пользователей. Разворачивание проводной сети связано с некоторыми сложностями и может обернуться большими затратами или потерей времени, поэтому самый простой и эффективный вариант создания сети – воспользоваться услугами провайдеров беспроводной сети.

In another sign of its increasing acceptance as a mainstream business and consumer technology tool, “Twitter” has today been named the most popular word of the year, according to the Global Language Monitor (GLM).

Итак, наконец вскрыли Xbox 360 и запустили сторонний код без подписи.

Webroot Tuesday announced it has extended its cloud-based Web security service, adding a way to filter outbound as well as inbound Web traffic, monitoring for threats in order to detect and block malware such as botnets that have infected computers.

One of the ways Microsoft plans to push Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 users to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 is convincing them the latest version is much more secure, which it is. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, last week posted a story on the IEBlog about how IE8 managed to block a malicious webpage he was linked to by one of his close friends on Facebook

A new version Metasploit released today includes integrated vulnerability scanning for the popular open source penetration testing tool.

While more companies reported malware infections, denial-of-service attacks, financial fraud and password sniffing in the last year, claimed damages due to the attacks had shrunk, according to the latest survey of security managers and corporate executives conducted by the Computer Security Institute.

The head of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia has temporarily stepped down while an investigation is carried out into hacked emails and documents from the organisation’s servers.

Microsoft is denying reports that its latest monthly security update is causing users to experience serious system problems.

A group of restaurants is demanding millions of dollars in damages from two companies accused of selling point-of-sale terminals that exposed customer data to criminal hackers.

Miscreants have developed a ransomware package that blocks internet access in a bid to force infected users into paying up by sending a text message to a premium rate SMS number, lining the pocket of cybercrooks in the process.

Проблема случайного касания тачпада ноутбука при печати касается многих пользователей ноутбуков. Т.е. вы, набирая текст, касаетесь изголовьем большого пальца тачпада и курсор перепрыгивает в другое место, где вы продолжаете набор

Как безболезненно перейти с Windows XP на недавно вышедшую Windows 7, и при этом не потерять свои документы и настройки? Изучив материалы на сайте Microsoft, я пришел к выводу, что они мне не подходят. Инструкция содержит столько пунктов и так пестрит вводимыми вручную командами, что браться за осуществление переноса данных по ней я не стал — мне показалось это слишком сложным, слишком английским, слишком непонятным

Третьего ноября этого года в Sysinternals был закрыт проект по развитию NewSID – утилиты, позволяющей менять идентификатор защиты компьютера (machine SID). Я написал NewSID (тогда она называлась NTSID) в 1997 году, поскольку на тот момент единственной программой, позволявшей менять SID, была утилита от Microsoft под названием Sysprep, которая не поддерживала смену идентификаторов защиты на тех машинах, на которых уже были установлены приложения.

First question: How tough are Thinkpad notebooks? Tough enough to be installed in buses and tram shuttles as seats and keep working just fine. Second question: Are the trackpads scrotumsensitive? I like to think they are.

The Honeynet Project has beefed up a free tool that helps spot attacks that can elude detection. The Picviz tool takes data from various log analysis sources and converts them into a multidimensional visual map of events.

A security bug in the latest version of the FreeBSD can be exploited to grant unprivileged users complete control over the operating system, a German researcher said Monday.

JB Hi-Fi's website was redirecting customers to malicious web pages over the weekend in a cyber attack that appears to have affected several other Australian websites in the lead-up to Christmas.

Authorities have arrested a British man and cautioned him for stealing accounts for online game Runescape, BBC News reported.