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Most of you are not surprised to hear that malware attacks can hit any browser, Internet Explorer is not necessarily [...]

Recent events in the area of Internet security have shown that big players can make a difference and shut down [...]

The Rustock Botnet was taken down earlier this month. It had accounted for billions of spam e-mails daily.  According to [...]

It’s fairly well known at this stage that high end smartphones like the iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile devices can [...]

Harckers, security researchers at the ToorCon security conference in San Diego showed how easy it can be to poke holes [...]

Sites like Facebook give rise to new forms of phishing. For example, scammers might hijack a Facebook account, then use it to lure that person’s friends into clicking a friendly link but is not and going to spam sites, or even giving up their Facebook login information.

Making calls can alert others about where you are. Because many mobile phones now carry Apps, they can be subjects of malware, or spyware, getting information about you. Watch what you say, and what you download.

An attacker can decrypt cookies, view states, form authentication tickets, identify membership passwords, see user data, and anything else encrypted using the ASP.NET framework’s API. These issues are significant because the vulnerabilities exploited affect the .NET framework, which is used by 25 percent of Web sites on the Internet.

The WildList is used as the basis for in-the-wild virus testing and certification of anti-virus products by several working groups like ICSA, Secure Computing, and Virus Bulletin.

Choosing a secure password to use online is second only in difficulty to knowing if that password is really secure [...]

To help promote the launch of their UK online backup service, Mozy have put together a great promotional video where [...]

To show who was hit the result was a who’s who list of iPad early adopters. It includes major political figures, military officials and top politicians. According to Gawker, who reported the breach,Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff was there, as was Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg were also there.

In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast WiFi data. A year later, when our mobile team started a project to collect basic WiFi network data like SSID information and MAC addresses using Google’s Street View cars.

While we may be just a couple of months into 2010, Symantec is already readying themselves for 2011 and now [...]