The Fifth International Forum on Combating Cybercrime – a two-day security conference – opened in Damascus, Syria, yesterday and, say the organisers, is a great success.
Latest MessageLabs intelligence report: spammers getting cleverer
The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.
Kaspersky Lab: watch out for Twitter-linked scamware
Veteran IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab has warned internet users to be aware of rogue or scam software that purports to be an IT security application, but is merely a vehicle to extract revenue – and possibly even card details – from unsuspecting web…
Russia starts ball rolling against Skype
One of Russia’s most powerful business lobby groups has told the country’s government that Internet telephony services like Skype are a threat to the country’s businesses and to national security.
Zero-day Adobe exploit zapped by Finjan
Finjan, the business internet security specialist, claims its gateway security technology can easily counter a zero-day vulnerability of Adobe Acrobat Reader and Flash Player
HSBC hit by three million pound fine
A three million pounds-plus fine imposed on three of HSBC’s divisions for failing to adequately protect customer data could easily have been avoided if the banking group has made use of digital data vaulting technology, says Cyber-Ark.
Kaspersky reveals price list for botnet attacks
A sophisticated underground economy has grown up to exploit the millions of personal computers that have been infected with rogue software that turns them into ‘zombies’ controlled by botnet masters, says an IT security expert.
TuCows review shows how to start WinXP without a password
If you ever wondered how to start Windows XP without a password and without going down to source code level, wonder no more, as Butterscotch’s content producer Stacey Reed has posted an informative video tutorial showing how it’s done.
Twitter email account hack highlights cloud dangers
Imperva, a data security specialist, says that last week’s hacking of a Twitter senior executive’s email account – details of which are now fully emerging – was the result of a combination of poor security practices and safeguards.
Watch out for more mobile trojans on the horizon says Fortify Software
Fortify Software, the application vulnerability analysis firm, says that the recent faux pas by the Symbian Foundation – in which the foundation effectively `signed’ a malicious application for release on its software referencing service – is an indica…