NEW YORK - Call me your e-mail security guinea pig. The other day I was talking to Hugh Thompson, adjunct professor of software security at Columbia University and founder of consultancy People Security, about his research related to online privacy and he mentioned how easy it can be to hijack someone's e-mail account. So, I
SAN FRANCISCO - A third of small and medium businesses surveyed by Panda Security have been hit by malware from social networks, according to a study released on Wednesday. Panda's "Social Media Risk Index for Small to Medium Sized Businesses" also found that 35 percent of the companies hurt by social-media malware suffered financial losses,
ANN ARBOR ? On-scene personnel accountability remains a critical problem for fire departments across the country. Basic hang-tag systems rely too heavily on manual steps to be effective in the chaotic environment of a fire, but automatic systems are often out of reach due to today's shrinking budgets. ERT Systems is pleased to introduce a
DEARBORN - We are pleased to announce our support of the Detroit SecureWorld Expo on October 6th & 7th at the Ford Conference Center in Dearborn. We will be hosting a members only InfraGard Chapter meeting breakfast on October 7 from 8:00 am to 9:15 am. The InfraGard Chapter meeting will feature presentations by Jim
SAN FRANCSICO - A new clickjacking scam was spreading on Facebook luring victims with a purported video of "cheerleaders gone wild," a security expert warned on Thursday before Facebook shut the attack down. Victims' accounts were posting messages that said "cheerleaders gone wild - have to see this" with a photo of, you guessed it,
SAN FRANCISCO - Cybercriminals are cranking out fake Web sites branded as eBay, banks, and other financial companies to the tune of tens of thousands every week, according to new research. During a three-month study of its global malware database, Panda Security found on average 57,000 new Web sites created each week with the aim
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft and Adobe Systems have announced that a recently released Microsoft toolkit can be used to block zero-day attacks targeting a security flaw in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader programs. In an advisory published Friday, Microsoft detailed how its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0 could be used to short-circuit the threat. Adobe, which
REDMOND, Wa. - With court backing and a novel use of a civil procedure, Microsoft appears to be close to obliterating the Waledac spam botnet, changing the way online criminal operations are defeated. A magistrate judge in federal court in Virginia is expected to recommend within days that the judge hearing Microsoft's case grant a
SAN FRANCSICO - Mozilla released two new versions of its browser on Tuesday, Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12, to close 10 critical security vulnerabilities in each and to help Web site operators block a risk called clickjacking. Critical vulnerabilities can let a remote attacker run arbitrary code on a computer, CNET News.Com. With Web browsers
SAN FRANCISCO - With 2010 in its' last third, PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, has released a ranking of the most widespread scams on the Web from the past 10 years. These include the infamous Nigerian scam, ploys involving beautiful foreign women and money mule schemes based on too-good-to-be-true job offers. "As with all the