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Fake anti-virus software has been the scourge of the net for awhile now, but hackers are now taking it a step further and making it even more sinister.  Panda Labs says that Total Security 2009 starts out like most fake anti-viruses.  It “scans” the victim’s computer and tells them they’ve… Continue Reading »

Hackers don’t just break into networks to steal.  Sometimes their intent is much more sinister, as an Arizona woman found out.  While Debbie Lee was camping 100 miles away from home someone hacked into her Facebook account and began flooding her status updates with suicidal comments such as “I don’t… Continue Reading »

Two days ago Twitter was knocked off line by a large scale DDoS attack and although back online, the site is still under attack and fighting to keep from being knocked offline again. Some of the steps they’ve taken have affected third party apps that use Twitter’s API. As a… Continue Reading »

Plagued with what seems like constant attacks from hackers and spammers, Twitter has finally put a feature in place that blocks malicious URLs.  However, the feature, which was introduced with little fanfare, is not exactly a rock solid defense. When someone posts a link that is malicious, they get an… Continue Reading »

Danish security researchers have discovered that Adobe is offering a badly outdated and bug ridden version of their popular Reader software on their website.  The version, Reader 9.1, was released in early March and has 14 security vulnerabilities that have been patched in two subsequent versions. By offering the outdated… Continue Reading »

Ah, summer.  Time to relax, go visit friends, vacation.  No worries, right?  Well, there may be a small one if you like to use public Wi-Fi on your travels. The latest trend for the in hacker is what has become known as “vacation hacking.”  It works by the hacker setting… Continue Reading »

A study by Verizon Business revealed that organized crime was behind more than 90% of all data breaches.  The company investigated 90 data breaches that exposed over 280 million records. Matthijs van der Wel, manager principal forensics EMEA, at Verizon Business Security Solutions, outlined the typical scenario for data losses. … Continue Reading »

This is big folks.  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. power grid has been hit by cyber spies who planted software within it that could be used to disrupt it.  The espionage was discovered by national security officials and doesn’t seem to be targeted at one specific… Continue Reading »

Stories are starting to fly around the Internet about the latest worm attacking Windows PCs.  Why is this one gaining such mass attention?  Because of the mystery surrounding it.  The Conficker worm has supposedly already infected millions of PCs around the world and it has plenty of people worried what… Continue Reading »

Power over Ethernet (“PoE”) is nothing new.  Usually, PoE is used to power switches and other networking devices.  A company called Baumer Ltd. is using PoE to power cameras over Cat6 cable.  The “TXG camera” can shoot at VGA and higher resolutions and up to 90 frames per second.  Where… Continue Reading »