December 10, 2010 - It was amusing to read the quirks and eccentricities of world leaders in the WikiLeaks revelations published this week. Besides learning that Muammar Qaddafi can’t go anywhere without his “voluptuous blonde” nurse, the revelations have been a grave embarrassment for (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - hack verb \ˈhak\ a : to write computer programs for enjoyment b : to gain (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - A recent story http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8180442/FBI-warns-Barbie-camera-could-be-used-by-paedophiles.html tells of a leaked FBI memo about the perils of a new Barbie doll. It appears that the new Barbie comes equipped with a web cam that can allow children to send videos of themselves (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - We’ve begun to change the look of the GFI Labs (formerly Sunbelt) blog and we thought we’d give our alert readers some idea of what to expect. Last June Sunbelt Software was purchased by GFI Software and today (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - Posted on behalf of Nicholas Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services Spammers abusing free hosting sites by using them for hosting spam-related content is nothing new, but this abuse has turned into much more sophisticated, multi-layer abuse. Instead of just including (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - Update: Since the following article was first published, Panda Security has declared that virus writer Li Jun does not and has never worked for the company, and that the Reuters report was (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - Just a day after Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with Wikileaks-related denial-of-service attacks, websites belonging to the Netherlands computer crime cops and prosecutors have been struck with a (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - Semi-nude pictures of Christina Aguilera leaked onto the internet earlier this week, causing fans of the pint-sized pop diva to feverishly run to their search engines in the hunt for the private (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - Mozilla has released version 3.6.13 of its popular Firefox web browser. This new version contains fixes for 11 security holes, nine of which have been given the worst rating of "critical" severity, as the vulnerabilities (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - TweetMeme, a service which tries to work out which are the most popular links being spread via Twitter, has unfortunately helped spammers overnight promote a make-money-fast "work from home" website. Thousands of Twitter accounts have been (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - Everyone out there - consider yourselves on notice about privacy, secrecy, security, encryption, data leakage prevention, and the rest of it. It's not the data which WikiLeaks leaked, it's the leak of the (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - The FBI has issued a warning about a cautionary incident.A 31-year-old Californian man was arrested for infecting computers with a backdoor trojan. He was sending the trojan via (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - Microsoft this month announced the largest Patch Tuesday ever. A total of 17 advisories, addressing 40 distinct vulnerabilities covering all versions of the Windows OS, plus Internet Explorer, MS Office, SharePoint (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - Posted by Kate Fly RealNetworks will patch 27 issues tomorrow, December 10, 2010. Twenty of these are vulnerabilities reported by the ZDI. At the time ZDI announced the Vendor Disclosure Policy Changes RealNetworks held 20 outstanding cases. In just (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - Hackers recently gained control of an Indonesian government Twitter account to falsely broadcast an impending, yet fictitious, tsunami in Jakarta, Indonesia to over 8,000 followers. While this was by no means considered a catastrophic event it certainly, I'm (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - My inbox is bursting at the seams! It started the week of Thanksgiving when emails started pouring in with offers of sales and free shipping, cookie recipes and gift-giving guides. It is all I can do to keep up with (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - Hi everyone. Mike Reavey from the MSRC here. Today we're releasing our Advance Notification Service for the December 2010 security bulletin release. As we do every month, we've given information about the coming December release and provided links to detailed information so you (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - It feels like you can't turn your back for a second without another story about distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks popping up. This one, however, has nothing to do with WikiLeaks and (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - Last year, identity theft raked as the number one consumer complaint category with 1.3 million people falling victim to the crime, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). As e-commerce sales continue to increase (Forrester Research has forecasted a (continue reading...) Read more
December 9, 2010 - According to an announcement by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service, a 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the distributed denial-of-service (continue reading...) Read more