Rapid7 is buying Metasploit, and promising to advance open source penetration testing and the Metasploit Project, which develops exploits against …
Researchers see Gumblar attacks surge again
Security researchers are seeing a resurgence of Gumblar, the name for a piece of malicious code that is spread by …
Facebook for scientists gets millions in funding
The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools have been awarded $12.2 million to build a …
Researchers see Gumblar attacks surge again
Security researchers are seeing a resurgence of Gumblar, the name for a piece of malicious code that is spread by …
38 Oracle security patches coming next week
After a record-setting week of Microsoft and Adobe security patches, Oracle is gearing up for a major update of its …
PayChoice breached for the second time this month
For the second time this month, PayChoice Inc., a large online provider of payroll processing services, has had to shut …
HP tries to find business use for touchscreen PCs
Hewlett-Packard sees businesses in the future adopting touchscreens, but the technology needs further development to be an alternative to keyboards …
HP tries to find business use for touchscreen PCs
Hewlett-Packard sees businesses in the future adopting touchscreens, but the technology needs further development to be an alternative to keyboards …
Malware flea market pays hackers to hijack PCs
Among a slew of online cybercrime forums, Pay-Per-Install.org stands out as a malware flea market where shadowy pushers of Trojan …
Malware flea market pays hackers to hijack PCs
Among a slew of online cybercrime forums, Pay-Per-Install.org stands out as a malware flea market where shadowy pushers of Trojan …
After attacks, Adobe patches now come faster
Hackers are fond of Adobe Systems, and now the company knows it all too well. Adobe's software has increasingly come …
After a few months' rest, SQL Web attack spreads anew
A botnet network of hacked computers has sprung back to life in the past few days and started infecting Web …
Hackers pay 43 cents per hijacked Mac
A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus …
Net neutrality, Alcatel-Lucent style
Alcatel-Lucent hasn't officially gotten caught up in this week's brouhaha over the FCC's plan to formalize net neutrality rules. However, …
Cisco patches a dozen router bugs
Cisco Systems has released its twice-yearly set of security patches for its router firmware, fixing 12 security flaws in the …
Scammers auto-generate Twitter accounts to spread scareware
Scammers are increasingly using machine-generated Twitter accounts to post messages about trendy topics, and tempt users into clicking on a …
Spam, malware dominate online user comments, Websense reports
A staggering 95% of all “user-generated comments” for blogs, chat rooms and message boards online are spam or malicious, according …
Inside dynamic workload management
Dynamic workflow management — the ability to sense changes in demand and automatically invoke requisite application and server resources to …
Apple patches 10 iPhone bugs, 4 QuickTime flaws
Apple issued a pair of updates yesterday that patched 10 vulnerabilities in its iPhone software and four in its QuickTime …
FVC to distribute nCircle's security and compliance audit solutions
FVC has signed a strategic agreement to distribute nCircle’s Suite360 in the region. nCircle’s comprehensive security and compliance audit systems …