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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • March 31st, 2009
Security Researchers Find Weakness in Conficker

Security Researchers Find Weakness in Conficker

Allowing them to identify compromised computers by scanning the network

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • March 30th, 2009
CAPTCHA Goes 3D

CAPTCHA Goes 3D

Tests that only the human brain can solve

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • February 17th, 2009
Google Launches Malvertising Search Engine

Google Launches Malvertising Search Engine

Aimed at helping ad networks do background checks on potential customers

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • February 9th, 2009
OpenDNS to Fight Conficker

OpenDNS to Fight Conficker

The company will implement a new service to track and block infected systems

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • February 6th, 2009
Energy Distribution Systems Affected by New Vulnerabilities

Energy Distribution Systems Affected by New Vulnerabilities

Bugs in AREVA software open door to remote unauthorized access

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • January 13th, 2009
Storm Botnet Cleaning Method Revealed

Storm Botnet Cleaning Method Revealed

But it cannot be applied due to legal constraints

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • December 10th, 2008
reCAPTCHA Recieves Security Improvement and New Audio Twist

reCAPTCHA Recieves Security Improvement and New Audio Twist

The new audio implementation helps transcribe historical audio content

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • November 5th, 2008
Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8 Plagued by Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8 Plagued by Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Adobe released an advisory and patches for all of them

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • October 17th, 2008
Adobe Fixes Clickjacking and Clipboard Hijacking Vulnerabilities

Adobe Fixes Clickjacking and Clipboard Hijacking Vulnerabilities

The new Flash Player 10 prevents clickjacking and clipboard attacks

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • October 9th, 2008
Quantum Cryptography Reaches Unprecedented Speed

Quantum Cryptography Reaches Unprecedented Speed

Toshiba researchers have broken the 1 Mbps QKD transfer barrier for the first time

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • September 26th, 2008
Massachusetts Has the Toughest Personal Information Data Security Standards

Massachusetts Has the Toughest Personal Information Data Security Standards

The state administration issues comprehensive identity theft prevention regulations

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • September 11th, 2008
Public Viewing of Arizona Death Certificates Halted Because of Identity Fraud

Public Viewing of Arizona Death Certificates Halted Because of Identity Fraud

The death notices from Maricopa County will no longer be available on a public website

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • September 11th, 2008
McAfee Takes Real-Time Protection Into the Cloud

McAfee Takes Real-Time Protection Into the Cloud

The new Artemis technology offers real-time protection directly from the Internet

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  • By Denisa Ilascu
  • September 6th, 2008
Blind Spot Eye Identification to Be Employed in Security Systems

Blind Spot Eye Identification to Be Employed in Security Systems

Japanese researchers hope

  •  
  • By Lucian Constantin
  • September 5th, 2008
Heartbeat Encryption - Literally

Heartbeat Encryption - Literally

Researchers secure wireless communication with medical implants by using heartbeat-based encryption

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • September 1st, 2008
Unprecedented Security Improvements to Combat DNS Cache Poisoning

Unprecedented Security Improvements to Combat DNS Cache Poisoning

Nominum has released a major security update that severely reduces success rate of DNS attacks

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  • By Lucian Constantin
  • August 30th, 2008
Companies Handling Credit Card Data Get New Security Policies

Companies Handling Credit Card Data Get New Security Policies

The PCI Security Standards Council will release the Data Security Standard version 1.2

 
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