Google has been crowned the 'king of malware' by security company Barracuda Networks, linking to twice as much malware as search rivals Bing, Yahoo and Twitter combined.
Read more..Black Hat security finds out the leaks in the most commonly used browsers that make them vunerable to the most simplest of hacking threats.
Read more.."Because consumers are typically the early adopters, enterprises often struggle to adapt existing polices to address their employees' preferred use of technology,"
Safari's AutoFill feature is enabled by default and will fill in information such as first and last name, work place, city, state, and e-mail address when it recognizes a form. The feature dumps the data into the form even if a person has entered no data on a particular Web site, which opens up an opportunity for a hacker.
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"The way Windows' shortcuts are designed is flawed, and I think they will have a very hard time patching this," says an antivirus researcher with Kaspersky Lab.
Read more..In this test, we look at five firewall operations management products: AlgoSec's Firewall Analyzer, RedSeal's Network Advisor and Vulnerability Advisor, Secure Passage's FireMon, Skybox's View Assure and View Secure and Tufin's SecureTrack.
Read more..55 percent of the flaws Microsoft reported to other vendors in the last 12 months go unfixed
Security execs tend to live in a world apart from the hacking community, which means missed chances to accomplish big things.
Read more..Electronic espionage from China and others could be stealing your vital product and business information right now.
Security consulting firm Seismic claims popular routers are vulnerable to hack.
Read more..Microsoft has provided workarounds for the icon display zero day, but the guidance also severely handicaps Windows
Read more..According to a security advisory issued Friday by Microsoft , hackers can use a malicious shortcut file, identified by the ".lnk" extension, to automatically run their malware simply by getting a user to view the contents of a folder containing the shortcut.
Read more..Microsoft warned last Friday that attackers are exploiting a critical unpatched Windows vulnerability using infected USB flash drives. The bug admission is the first that affects Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) since Microsoft retired the edition from support.
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The promise of cost savings derived from cloud computing is attractive, but concrete financial returns are not always quickly achieved. Except, perhaps, when it comes to disaster recovery.
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Developers sell subscription programs, upgrade services for hacking
Read more..Sourcefire, best known for its Snort intrusion-prevention technology, Tuesday is unveiling a new open source project called Razorback that's designed to spot malware and especially zero-day exploits.
Windows 7 has received mostly positive reviews for how it protects users from viruses and other security threats better than Windows XP or Vista.
Read more..Security Essentials will also ask whether a user wants to turn on the firewall. Another improvement is integration with the company's Internet Explorer browser.
Read more..Security experts had said that sandboxing Reader would be a smart move by Adobe as it struggled to lock down the program and prevent vulnerabilities from being exploited by hackers.
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Antispam systems come in three forms: software, appliance and hosted service. While software is currently the largest segment, appliances make up the fastest-growing category, with a 50 percent annual growth rate over the next four years.
Read more..California-based Marshal8e6 deliberately infected machines in the lab of its research arm, TRACElabs, with the malware responsible for the world's nine biggest spam botnets, then observed the PCs' behavior, including each bot's top-end spam capacity.
Read more..Siemens is warning customers of a new and highly sophisticated virus that targets the computers used to manage large-scale industrial control systems used by manufacturing and utility companies.
Read more..The response rate for snail-mail spam is between 0.5 and 1 percent. That might not sound like a lot, but if you apply it to e-mail, it means a spammer can send 1 million messages -- without the cost of paper and postage -- and 5,000 to 10,000 people will answer.
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Let's assume for a moment that Google's collection of Wi-Fi "payload" data really was unintentional. And that Google never used the data, didn't even know it was there and stored it securely. Is it actually a privacy leak if no one has looked at the private data?
By its very nature, business especially the auto industry cannot work in isolation. Rajesh Uppal shows the benefits of bringing suppliers and dealers on the same page as one's organization.
It took one ERP implementation and a series of crises for Sanjay Jain to realize the secrets of project success.
You can get data classification right, but still end up with wrong information or data that’s not in the form your business users want. And then you would not have done a great job.
Work-life balance doesn’t have to be a tightrope walk, as the CIO of the world’s third-largest spirit’s company tells you. Work with a merged calendar, he says. "It helps me ensure that no clashes — like birthdays — take place".
