December 13, 2010 - Yet another BHSEO attack, and as always the cybercriminals are using the most popular terms, in this case Wikileaks related terms: Wikileaks Wikileaks killing video Wikileaks afghanistan Wikileaks video This is what you get when you search some of these (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2010 - Our great leader and CEO Juan Santana (you know, this is the time of the year when I have to butter him up and try to improve my salary for 2011 ) has invited me to write in his blog, (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2010 - If only Web application security were black and white. We could simply load our scanner without thinking anything through, enter the URL, click Scan, generate a report (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2010 - Girls Aloud pop star Cheryl Cole, famous in the UK for her role as a judge on top TV show "The X Factor" which had its grand final last night, is being (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2010 - A Chinese court has found a high-up security official guilty of corruption, taking over 14 million yuan (over US $2 million) in bribes from different internet security companies, and sending out (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2010 - Originally Posted by todb I woke up this morning to find reddits abuzz with the latest password dump, this time from Gawker and related (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2010 - Partner sales reps and sales engineers, McAfee is continuing with the success of the Bring McAfee to the Game incentive. Don’t miss (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2010 - A month ago, the Nobel Committee awarded The Nobel Peace Prize to Mr. Liu Xiaobo. He was awarded for — to quote the prize committee — long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2010 - Hundreds of thousands of Twitter accounts appear to have been compromised by hackers, who have spread spam promoting an Acai Berry diet. Typical spam messages included: I lost 9lbs using acai! RT This! (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2010 - Following a security breach at Gawker Media, computer users who have left comments on websites such as Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot are being advised to (continue reading...) Read more
December 11, 2010 - Police in the Netherlands have arrested a second teenager in relation to the pro-WikiLeaks distributed denial-of-service attacks seen earlier this week. The arrest of the 19-year-old man follows Friday's attacks on (continue reading...) Read more
December 11, 2010 - Unless you’ve been on a sabbatical in a remote and unconnected part of the world, I don’t think you could have missed the news regarding WikiLeaks (the “whistleblower” web site) and its founder, Julian Assange. To put it succinctly, (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - Sophos's page on Facebook has over 35,000 members - sharing information about the latest threats. Today I'm indebted to one member, Robert, who alerted me to a new scam spreading virally across the social network. (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - Another viral scam is spreading between Facebook users, tricking them into taking online surveys that earn commission for those who initiated the scam. (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - A “fly by night” business is one that quickly appears and disappears, without concern for the quality of their product or service, or for legal regulations. These untrustworthy businesses often operate fraudulently. On the Internet, a fly by night business (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - Shopping online is unquestionably more convenient and efficient than traditional commerce. But is it safer? We face risk everywhere we go. We risk car accidents on the way to the mall. Muggers and thieves present a risk. Heck, you risk catching (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - Do you know someone who you just can’t think of what to get them this year? Or perhaps you know someone who doesn’t have antivirus software on their computer because they use dial-up? (I actually do know someone who thought (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - Typosquatting, or URL hijacking, is a form of cybersquatting that targets Internet users who accidentally type a website address into their web browser incorrectly. When users make a typographical error while entering the website address, they may be led to an (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - A big shortcoming of traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP or HTTP has been the impact on throughput that results from TCP’s aggressive congestion control mechanism; especially when transferring large data files over wide area networks. Aspera’s FASP is (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2010 - A big shortcoming of traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP or HTTP has been the impact on throughput that results from TCP’s aggressive congestion control mechanism; especially when transferring large data files over wide area networks. Aspera’s FASP is (continue reading...) Read more