Ars Technica:
Late last week, a collection of e-mails and documents began appearing on a variety of websites, purportedly a selection of a much larger cache of material obtained when hackers gained entry to the UK's Climatic Research Unit. All indications are that the documents are legitimate, and they reveal the scient (Read More)
Ars Technica:
The second malicious worm to attack jailbroken iPhones has been spotted in the wild, and is the first to directly target users' bank accounts. Called iBotnet.A by security research firm Intego, the worm tries to steal account logins from customers of popular online banking service ING Direct. Though it only (Read More)
Ars Technica:
This week, Google released an update to Google Chrome Frame. Version 4.0.245.1 is available and all users should be updated automatically, according to Google Chrome Releases. The release fixes issues where the plugin would not follow redirects properly, where network requests would fail randomly, and where it would fre (Read More)
The most recent articles from VNU Business Publications:
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 20 November 2009 at 00:03:00 'DonBot' makes an offer Twitter can't refuse A major malware botnet has sprung to life and is making a massive spam run through social networking sites. Researchers with Symantec's MessageLabs branch said that the DonBot network has... (Read More)
Ars Technica:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation told Congress this week that when it comes to cyber crime, terrorist groups like Al Qaeda aren't the sharpest pencils in the cup, but they're not out of the game either. "It is always worth remaining mindful that terrorists do not require long (Read More)
Packet Storm Security Advisories:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Serv-U, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error in a function when processing a hexadecimal representation of a string using a TEA decoding algorithm. This can be exploited to (Read More)
DarkReading - All Stories:
Metasploit's expected entry into the commercial penetration testing market is the latest step toward making pen-testing more mainstream. (Read More)