Monthly Archives: May 2010

Computer world is reporting that Core Security Technologies discovered that Microsoft had patched three vulnerabilities in Exchange and Windows SMTP last month and didn’t publicize the fact. Core Security makes penetration testing software. Although such silent fixes are not new, …

A section of China’s official Xinhua news Web site was hacked and was serving malware last month, however, Google’s safe browsing service is still labeling it as unsafe despite the fact that it was fixed more than a week ago. …

Security has a bit of a dark side. When people are given power over other people there often seems to be the urge to abuse that power.  We have previously covered the scandal in which a school used webcams on …

Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Congress that would expand privacy protections both on- and off-line, requiring companies to allow consumers to opt-out of any data collection. IP addresses are included in the list of information covered by the …

iTunes Gift cards can be pretty expensive, and of course this means there are people who will quite happily go to great lengths to take them from you. While looking around a fake Facebook Hack website, I noticed something else …

Sunbelt Software has begun offering live webinar demos of VIPRE® Enterprise Premium 4.0 weekdays at 4 p.m. Presentations will include: – features and functionality– tips and best practices for configuration– LIVE answers to your questions from our Support team. VIPRE …

There are all sorts of ways for dubious characters to generate some cash for themselves – some will offer up fake hacking programs that require you to fill in a survey to download their worthless application, while others will go …

Scams are getting bolder and more intelligent all the time. Recent the BBC broke a story about a new scareware malware which exploits people looking for pornography. The malware which masquerades as a pornographic game once downloaded and run takes …

Consumer Reports has published results of its “State of the Net” survey in the June 2010 magazine. Bottom line: there are twice as many people using social media as a year ago and a lot of them aren’t very security …

French researchers have found that large amounts of content on BitTorrent is supplied by a relatively small number of people according to a paper presented at the Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emerging Threats in San Francisco. The researchers …