Malware City/News

Aug
12

Six Florida Colleges Victims Of Widespread Data Breach

Filed Under: SECURITY ALERTS
SSNs, other personal data of 126,000 students, employees were inadvertently exposed -- and ultimately accessed -- online

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Malware City/News

Aug
12

Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors

Filed Under: MISCELLANEOUS
The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina.

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Malware City/News

Aug
4

Repetition breaks Google Audio CAPTCHA

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
Google has fixed a flaw in its Audio CAPTCHA software that could have given scammers a way to automatically set up phoney accounts with the company's services.

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Malware City/News

Jun
1

First Chrome Security Extension? BitDefender.

Filed Under: SECURITY SOFTWARE
Google has added the free BitDefender Quickscan security tool to its Chrome extensions library.

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Malware City/News

Apr
29

New Threat: Undetectable Facebook Scams

Filed Under: SECURITY ALERTS
I recently received two Facebook e-mail notifications that set my security spider-sense tingling. Nothing was obviously wrong with the e-mail messages, which said that my friend had tagged a photo of me and then commented on it. But something about a reference to an app named "Who stalks into your profile" just didn't feel right.

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Malware City/News

Mar
16

How can organisations guard against phishing scams?

Filed Under: MISCELLANEOUS
What should information security professionals be doing to ensure their organisations are protected from phishing scams aimed at private enterprise?

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