The Mac OS virtualization product has been updated by VMware to address three minor security vulnerabilities and a host of known bugs.
New website tackles challenges of intelligent whitelisting technology
Lumension is sponsoring a new website to share insights into intelligent whitelisting technology to improve organizations’ information security.
AVG update crashes 64-bit Windows 7 systems
The latest software update from security supplier AVG Technologies has caused problems with many users running Microsoft’s 64-bit Windows 7 operating system.
FBI identifies major Russian spam oligarch
Reports are coming in that the FBI has identified a 23-year-old Russian as the lynchpin behind the infamous Mega-D botnet, which has been responsible for as much as a third of all spam generated around the world.
Visa taps cardholder’s mobile location to tackle fraud
Visa Europe has announced plans to use the location of a cardholder’s mobile phone to better detect fraud using its payment cards. The card company has reportedly contracted with ValidSoft, part of the ElephantTalk telecoms group, for the service.
Virtualization benefits also come with security risks
With the growth in the popularity of virtualization comes attendant security risks, noted a recent white paper from the global IT association ISACA.
Russia tops Kaspersky Labs’ list of global spammers
Russia has finally buried the US…in spam. Russia topped the list of sources of global spam, with the US a distant 18th, according to Kaspersky Labs’ October spam report.
Mass injection attack on WordPress blogs revealed
An IT security researcher claims to have uncovered a sophisticated mass injection attack that uses a polymorphic obfuscation attack vector, and has been used to target WordPress blogs at a US-based hosting provider.
Network access control still not taking off, says Forrester
Despite a lot of discussion in the media, it seems that only 10% of security organisations in Europe and North America are planning to implement network access control (NAC) technology in the next 12 months.
Internet responds to government attempts to tighten control
US and UK authorities are tightening their control of the internet in their fight against copyright pirates and counterfeiters. But their moves may reverse the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty, and open the way to censorship of on…