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Cisco Study Highlights Data Loss Errors

Data loss is most often blamed on ingenious hackers and technical complexity within enterprise businesses, but many incidents are instead related to faulty user...

Langevin Plugs Proactive Cyber-warfare

Much has been written and said about the U.S. government's need to improve its electronic defenses against the potential for cyber-attacks carried out by...

Malware Attacks Posing as Campaign Videos

Apparently Saturday Night Live isn't the only constituency seeking to profit by tying its fortunes to presidential-themed video clips these days.In addition to the...

U.S. CERT Weighs in on Clickjacking

As noted in a post in this space earlier this week, security researchers have begun publicizing the emergence of a dangerous new online attack...

Clickjacking Browser Attack Details Emerge

Prominent security researchers Robert "RSnake" Hansen and Jeremiah Grossman may have cancelled their scheduled presentation on "clickjacking" -- a newly discovered form of browser...

Porn Forums Distribute Malware

Online attackers have been authoring blog posts for the sake of luring end users into downloading their malware files for some time, but Trend...

Researchers Uncover iPhone Pharming Attacks

Researchers at Panda Security's PandaLabs have discovered a set of malware-ridden pharming attacks that aim to lure in users by offering video clips of...

Maserati Hacker’s Extortion Gambit Stalls

An aging hacker with an interesting angle on electronic extortion and a taste for expensive European sports cars is awaiting trial for his crimes...

Malware Code Moving to Rich Content

As security pundits have been predicting literally since the dawn of the YouTube era, researchers report that they are now finding rapidly increasing levels...

IDC: Managed Security Finally Taking Off

After years of predictions that more enterprises would soon begin ceding management of their IT security responsibilities over to vendors and professional services companies,...