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- Trojan attacks remain widespread
- Spammers attack Apple's Ping social network
- Labor Day phishing warning
- User's opinions on malware infections revealed
- Google Code hosting malware-spreading project
- Fake browser warnings lure victims to rogue AV solution
- Rescue of Chilean miners used as lure by banker Trojan
- Phishing campaign targets McDonald's fans
- Cyber crooks steal nearly $1 million from University of Virginia
- Nagios monitoring system 3.2.2 released
- Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 7 released
- Slovenian Mariposa suspects' identities revealed
  Labor Day phishing warningRescue of Chilean miners used as lure by banker TrojanMalware protection tips for social media usersFake surveys harvest personal information Spammers attack Apple's Ping social network Google Code hosting malware-spreading project Cyber crooks steal nearly $1 million from University of Virginia   Strong authentication with Mike MoirSandbox for Adobe Reader with Didier StevensPhishing explained with Dr. Jason Hong(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 27 released Top scams on the web A closer look at GFI Backup 2010 Business Edition |
Scammers and spammers have deluged the new Ping musical social network, created by Apple and built into the new version of iTunes. Unfortunately Ping is being over-run by scams and spam messages, some of which try and direct users into believing they will receive a free iPhone if they complete online surveys.
Google Code's project hosting feature has occasionally been used by malicious individuals for storing and spreading malware. Even though Google claims that any project including malicious files will be taken down, it takes the Google Code team a rather long time to detect them by scanning the hosted content.
A theft of nearly $1 million from bank accounts of the University of VirginiaÕs College at Wise is being investigated by the FBI. While the agency - as per their official policy - does not confirm or deny that such an investigation is underway, the college's media relations director refused to divulge any details.
(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication and the September issue was released today. 
PandaLabs has drawn up a ranking of the most widely used scams over the last few years. These confidence tricks, which are still in wide circulation, all have the same objective: to defraud users of amounts ranging from $500 to thousands of dollars.
Through GFI Backup's central web-based administration console, administrators can configure and implement company-wide backup policies in a single task. Additionally, through the product's agent component, users can create their own personal backup and restore tasks, over and above the centrally-created default backups.