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FTC Hunting Down P2P Data Leaks

A few days ago the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has formally announced that they have notified almost 100 organizations about sensitive information that they have identified on P2P file-sharing systems.  This data includes “health-related information, financial records, and drivers’ license and social security numbers” that has been inadvertently released by these organization’s employees.  The notices [...]

Scan This! Web Application Security Statistics Released

WASC 2008 results of Web Application Security Statistics shows manual testing finds double the vulnerabilities automated scanning would!

Falling clouds

Cloud providers seem very fallible recent with two major catastrophes within the last week.

Beware the Ads…

NY Times website tricked into serving Scareware through malicious ad content.

Sears.com Vulnerability Reinforces Need for Manual Testing

New vulnvulnerability in Sears.com website reinforces the need for manual pen testing.

New Mac Trojan Variant Found in the Wild

New Mac OSX Trojan, OSX_JAHLAV.D, found in the wild by Trend Micro.

First SMS Worm Crawling out of China

First SMS worm found in the wild.

The Next Frontier for Malware – ATMs!

A news update identifying a relatively new malware that was found exploiting ATMs in Europe.

Conficker’s New Motive – Scareware

Updated info on the the new Conficker.e variant,

The Next Conficker: The Worm Steps it up and Researchers slam it down

The hackers who control the Conficker bot-network are touted to be pushing out an update that will strengthen and reinforce the malware’s stronghold on a computer system when the date changes to April 1. Just in the nick of time security researchers have found a fingerprint that can identify if a system is infected by Conficker.