The Trojan that was able to breach through Monster.com’s defenses seems to have claimed quite a few resume’s; 1.3 million according to this article. At this point, Monster states that they will be strengthening their security as well as contact the people who have had their resume’s stolen via this Trojan. One […]

This sounds like a really interesting project. Over the past couple of years, Symantec has been developing a project called ‘Dark Vision’ that digs through underground web sites, forums and chat rooms looking for sensitive information. While it is still a long way from being completed, they state that they currently are not […]

This is one of the new additions to the Storm Botnet. As one method of propagation, it will send you an email stating that there is a scandalous video about you on YouTube. If you click on a link, you will be directed to a fraudulent YouTube where malware will then be remotely […]

Earthtimes - HELSINKI, Finland, Aug. 29 A line of Sony Electronics Inc. USB flash drives installs files in a hidden folder that hackers can get into, a Finnish security company said. The fingerprint-reader software included with the Sony MicroVault USM-F line
Hackers hit New Zealand Herald websiteStuff - PWNED: The NZ Herald’s website […]

Many people remember the whole fiasco with Sony in regards to them putting rootkits on a variety of music CD’s which automatically installed themselves when people use the CD’s in their computer. You would think that Sony would have learned from this incident, but I guess they didn’t. Recently, they started selling a […]

Deutsche Welle - Pharming is an even more serious problem for Internet consumers. In this method, Web pirates hijack a site and use sensitive data entered there for their own purposes. Security experts say it’s very difficult to detect when a Web site has been taken
NEWSWEEK s Brad Stone joined […]

ZDNet UK - Many companies employ constructive, or white hat, hackers to find vulnerabilities in code and computer systems. “At his or her Mobile Torrents A Cell Phone Security Nightmare By: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com It was not too many years

While there are still a very large amount of unsecured wireless hotspots around, some have decided to play it safe and establish some security measures. Both businesses and personal users have decided to do various things such as disable their SSID broadcast as well as enable encryption. Unfortunately, sometimes precautions like these aren’t […]

A couple of weeks ago, some people broke into an office at Yale University to steal some computers and sell them for some profit. What these thieves didn’t know was that the computers they stole had over 10,000 social security numbers from past and present students as well as faculty from Yale. Fortunately, […]

Here’s something crazy: 44 percent of people conducted in this certain survey said they open messages and attachments on their mobile devices from unknown sources. While part of this may be caused by ignorance, it sounds like the main problem has to do with people unable to read the small screens on their mobile […]