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Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines
Every twt.tl bit helps
Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
Posted on 10 March 2010 | 12:46 pm
Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe
Kiss and don't tell
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
Posted on 10 March 2010 | 9:29 am
It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app
The new Microsoft
Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
Posted on 9 March 2010 | 8:33 pm
Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic
Android phone comes riddled with bots
Updated Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Posted on 9 March 2010 | 10:56 am
Energizer Duo software suffers backdoor Trojan bother
Shh, I'm hunting wabbits
A Trojan backdoor found its way into Energizer Duo USB battery charger software downloads.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
Posted on 8 March 2010 | 11:33 am
Patchy Windows patching leaves users insecure
Third-party patch treadmill running too fast, warns security firm
Windows users need to patch their systems an average of every five days to stay ahead of security vulnerabilities, according to a study this week.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Posted on 7 March 2010 | 8:02 am
Scareware sellers fool Google with file switch
Replacing pdfs with dodgy Flash files
Cybercrooks have developed a new technique for manipulating search engine results in order to promote the crud they sell, such as scareware packages.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 4:25 pm
Patch Tuesday will leave F1 hole unpatched
Light spring sprinkle follows deluge
Microsoft is planning just two bulletins next week, covering vulnerabilities rated only as "important", as part of this month's Patch Tuesday.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 10:40 am
Patch Tuesday will leave F1 hole unpatched
Light spring sprinkle follows deluge
Microsoft is planning just two bulletins next week, covering vulnerabilities rated only as "important", as part of this month's Patch Tuesday.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 10:40 am
Web wags stage IE 6 funeral
Oh right. Haha! Yes. Because it's 'dead'.
The unsung comic geniuses of the web are holding a mock funeral for Microsoft's decrepit IE 6 browser software later on Thursday.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 11:02 am
Hacking human gullibility with social penetration
We don't need no stinking exploits
Security penetration testers Mike Bailey and Mike Murray rely plenty on attacks that exploit weaknesses in websites and servers, but their approach is better summed up by the famous phrase "There's a sucker born every minute".…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 7:02 am
MS confirms 'F1 to pwn' IE bug
Looking for help can be dangerous
Microsoft has confirmed that an unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability makes it potentially dangerous to press F1 if you are running earlier versions of Windows.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
Posted on 3 March 2010 | 4:24 pm
How FBI, police busted massive botnet
12m zombie machines run by 3 admins
Analysis More details have emerged about a cybercrime investigation that led to the takedown of a botnet containing 12m zombie PCs and the arrest of three alleged kingpins who built and ran it.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Posted on 3 March 2010 | 3:56 pm
Zombie tactics threaten to poison honeypots
Hive minds vs bot herders
Innovations in botnet technology threaten the usefulness of honeypots, one of the main ways to study how bot herders control networks of zombie PCs.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
Posted on 2 March 2010 | 4:13 pm
National Theatre hack forces password reset
Minor drama
Some 17,000 culture vultures registered to the UK's National Theatre website need to reset their passwords after the site was hacked.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
Posted on 2 March 2010 | 1:08 pm
WoW authenticators bypassed by middlemen hackers
Your shiny weapons are no good here
Crooks have developed a man-in-the-middle-attack designed to circumvent authentication kit used by dedicated World of Warcraft gamers.…
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Posted on 2 March 2010 | 11:42 am
Qualys crawls into the malware scanning biz
Friendly robots provide drive-by download alerts
Qualys is inviting sys admins to sign up to a new free service, QualysGuard Malware Detection, which provides alerts about drive-by-download attacks and malicious scripts on monitored websites.…
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Posted on 2 March 2010 | 10:22 am
Hackers go on Tory-bothering spree
Dave's websites made to spew 'Vote Labour' spam
Conservative party websites have been attacked by mischievous hackers over the weekend, who defaced some of the sites and sent spam messages from others urging people to "vote Labour".…
What is your recession sales strategy?
Posted on 1 March 2010 | 1:09 pm
Hackers go on Tory-bothering spree
Dave's websites made to spew 'Vote Labour' spam
Conservative party websites have been attacked by mischievous hackers over the weekend, who defaced some of the sites and sent spam messages from others urging people to "vote Labour".…
What is your recession sales strategy?
Posted on 1 March 2010 | 1:09 pm
Cyberspooks sceptical on UK.gov's IT cost-cutting plans
Cloud threatened by security risks, says GCHQ
Exclusive Whitehall IT chiefs have been warned by the intelligence agency GCHQ that security problems with cloud computing could foil their plans to use the technology to slash the cost of public services.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
Posted on 26 February 2010 | 1:05 pm
