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Backbone Security has announced an updated implementation of its network security appliance for detecting steganography in real-time. The Steganography Analyzer Real-time Scanner, StegAlyzerRTS, developed in Backbone's Steganography Analysis and Research Center purports to be the only commercially available real-time steganography detection system ...

Microsoft's March patch day arrives as a mixed blessing for IT administrators. On the one hand, Microsoft is releasing only two security bulletins to address eight vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office.

Gregg Keizer ) 11 March, 2010 23:31 Exploit code for the unpatched bug in Internet Explorer was published on the Web yesterday, a step security pros said earlier would be the precursor to widespread attacks.

New capabilities are strengthening the ZeuS botnet , which criminals use to steal financial credentials and execute unauthorized transactions in online banking, automated clearing house networks and payroll systems.

VeriSign Inc., whose technology is key to allowing Internet users to access Web sites with names ending in ".com" and ".net," plans to spend more than $300 million over the next decade to upgrade its systems.

The Pentagon is training people to hack into its own computer networks. "To beat a hacker, you need to think like one," said Jay Bavisi, co-founder and president of the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants, or EC-Council. His company was chosen by the Pentagon to oversee training of Department of Defense employees who work in ...

Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers "the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse." On Wednesday security experts trying to take down the Zeus botnet got a taste of what he meant.

AVG monitoring of active web servers serving exploits around the world indicates that 44 percent of the corrupted servers are hosted in the United States, followed by Germany and China at just 5 percent each.

Hackers are exploiting the just-disclosed unpatched bug in Internet Explorer to launch drive-by attacks from malicious Web sites, security researchers said today.

Gregg Keizer ) 11 March, 2010 08:25 Hackers adore Adobe Reader, and have pushed it into first place as the software most often exploited in targeted attacks, a Finnish security company said today.

The cyber attacks that targeted Google Inc. were carried out by "amateur-level" botnets -- networks of computers commandeered by hackers -- according to U.S. security company Damballa Inc.

Britain's security services are fending off daily attacks on UK computer systems by foreign states and terrorists, it was revealed today.

Article:Microsoft warns of new IE bug; attacks under way:/g/a/2010/03/09/urnidgns852573C400693880002576E1006A4E53.DTL Article:Microsoft warns of new IE bug; attacks under way:/g/a/2010/03/09/urnidgns852573C400693880002576E1006A4E53.DTL 11:27 PST -- Microsoft today warned of a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is already being ...

AOptix Technologies, Inc., , a leading edge developer of advanced iris biometrics products and long-distance wireless optical communications solutions, today announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Daon, a leading provider of identity assurance software products, to participate in the DaonAdvantage Program.

Following Energizer's acknowledgment last week that it had been distributing infected software in conjunction with its DUO USB charger comes a report that malware has been found on a Vodafone HTC Magic running Google's Android OS.

Trend Micro has seen a recent rise in average of around 300 unique ZeuS samples per day, according to a recent threat report that examines the Eastern European criminal enterprise behind one of the world's most prolific crimeware kits designed for wholesale monetary theft.

Chicopee's municipal website is up and running after being temporarily compromised by hackers from Argentina.

Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost U.S. companies US$25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

On the face of it, research by Damballa appears to support Beijing's claims. If the security hole in Internet Explorer was the smoking gun of the attacks, what Ollmann and his researchers looked at was "the occupants and driver of the getaway van," he said.

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