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There are a lot of hackers and hacker groups out there that breach websites to gain fame or for political motives. Many of them deface the websites they hack to send out various messages. Most of these hackers and hacker groups submit mirrors of their “work” to defacement archives to keep track of their ... |
8 June 2013
10:31 GMT |
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Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to do an interview with 21-year-old Ibrahim El-Sayed, one of the members of Vulnerability Lab.
Ibrahim received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering degree from the American University of Cairo, Egypt, in 2012, but he has been passionate about information security... |
18 March 2013
03:38 GMT |
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World renowned security solutions provider ESET has recently updated its Windows and Mac products. In addition, the company has also analyzed some interesting cyber threats over the past period. That’s why we’ve asked some of their experts to offer some insight regarding their latest solutions and the re... |
2 March 2013
11:01 GMT |
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On April 8-11, Hotel Okura will host the 2013 Amsterdam edition of the world-renowned Hack In The Box (HITB2013AMS) security conference. Since this edition also promises to be highly interesting, we’ve asked Dhillon Kannabhiran, the CEO and founder of HITB, to do an interview with us. We’ve learned some ... |
23 February 2013
10:21 GMT |
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2012 was a good year for Romania-based security solutions provider Bitdefender. Bitdefender Internet Security has been named the product of the year by AV-Comparatives.
In addition, the product ranked number one in the tests performed by AV-TEST in September and October. AV-TEST has also awarded Bitdefender th... |
9 February 2013
10:41 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago we participated at DefCamp, Romania's most important security conference. We attended some interesting talks, but we also witnessed an evolution of the conference itself. We wanted to learn more about DefCamp and the direction it's heading, so we've asked Andrei Avădănei, the co... |
22 December 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Team GhostShell has made a lot of headlines over the past period. That’s because, usually, its operations don't affect just a single company, but hundreds at a time. Their first major campaign, launched back in May, targeted China. At the time, the hackers leaked the details of 100,000 user accounts, stol... |
13 November 2012
09:06 GMT |
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We’ve had the opportunity to interview one of the members of the Mrt. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters hacker collective, better known for the attacks they have been launching in the past period against the websites of several financial institutions from the United States. As we’ve previously men... |
7 November 2012
09:48 GMT |
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This Christmas we’ll most likely see an unprecedented surge in sales of Internet-enabled and network-connected device use in both home and workplace environments. This automatically means that mobile network operators will have to prepare their systems to handle a large number of new endpoints.
Network congest... |
29 October 2012
14:31 GMT |
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We’ve had the honor of doing an interview with the legendary computer programmer and former phone phreak John Draper, also known as Captain Crunch. He is currently in Thailand, working on his latest book, but, apparently, he also has some other interesting projects in mind. We covered some interesting topics s... |
27 October 2012
11:41 GMT |
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The Amanda Todd incident has caused a lot of controversy in the past few weeks, but it has also raised a lot of questions on the phenomenon that’s called cyberbullying. Since it affects so many teens and, implicitly their parents, we’ve decided to interview an expert on the topic in hopes that we can shed... |
20 October 2012
11:11 GMT |
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In March, we had a great interview with Steve Thomas, the co-founder of PwnedList, a service that’s designed to keep companies and individuals informed at all times regarding the safety of their online accounts. Since then, PwnedList has evolved a great deal and, recently, it completed its first year of data l... |
4 August 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Many users may not know what online astroturfing is, but most of those who use the Internet on a regular basis have surely felt its effects. To learn more on this topic we’ve had an interview with Shuman Ghosemajumder, former click-fraud czar at Google, currently the VP of Marketing at Shape Security. He was ... |
21 July 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Marco Balduzzi, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, has been kind enough to have a chat with us at the Hack in the Box 2012 security conference in Amsterdam. We’ve talked about different things relating to cloud security, but the talk focused on the researcher’s studies on Amazon EC server images ... |
6 July 2012
17:41 GMT |
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As we mentioned previously, this year we had a lot of great interviews at Hack in the Box Amsterdam. One of them was with Steven Seeley, a senior security consultant at Stratsec, who identified a few interesting vulnerabilities. Much of his research has focused on the Windows 7 and Windows 8 heap managers, their sec... |
30 June 2012
08:11 GMT |
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At the end of May we attended the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam and we had the opportunity to speak to a number of experts. One of them is Georgia Weidman, the founder and CEO of Bulb Security. She shared some interesting insight on Android’s permission model and the security holes that come... |
23 June 2012
08:51 GMT |
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During the 2012 edition of the Hack in the Box (HITB) security conference in Amsterdam, we had the pleasure of speaking to Roberto Suggi Liverani, a researcher who focused his efforts on finding vulnerabilities in some of the most popular web browsers. Security holes in web browsers are nor something new, but part o... |
20 June 2012
02:05 GMT |
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Some time ago we reported that Spencer Mott, the chief information security officer (CISO) at Electronic Arts (EA) had raised concerns about the risks posed by Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and Advanced Evasion Techniques (AETs). While APTs are a well-known concept, AETs are not so common. However, that doesn&r... |
14 June 2012
02:12 GMT |
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This year, Softpedia had the privilege to pick the brains of many security experts at Hack in the Box 2012 Amsterdam. Among them is Adam Gowdiak, CEO and founder of Security Explorations, a company whose researchers are not afraid of taking a crack at unexplored areas. Their latest achievement is the discovery of ma... |
12 June 2012
02:54 GMT |
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The 2012 edition of the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam featured a world premier: for the first time ever the entire Chronic Dev Team got together. As many of our readers may already know from our HITB coverage, we’ve had the honor of interviewing the hackers to whom most people are grateful for being... |
9 June 2012
08:31 GMT |
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One of the latest Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) analyzed by security researchers is the campaign known as IXESHE, or i-sushi. Since Trend Micro has been actively involved in monitoring and mitigating the threats posed by it, we’ve requested further details from Nart Villeneuve, a senior threat researcher,... |
6 June 2012
03:20 GMT |
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Since February, the Vulnerability Lab has a new member. His name is Karim H.B. and he is the latest winner of the Morocco Cyber Security Challenge (MCSC), an event that’s meant not only to test the skills of information security enthusiasts, but also to educate businesses and engineers. We’ve asked Karim... |
21 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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India is rushing to align itself with Western countries when it comes to cyber security and as a result, some of the country’s experts have already begun organizing events, not only to educate the public, but also because they want to show that they have what it takes. We wanted to find out more, so we intervi... |
13 May 2012
02:01 GMT |
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The hacker known as Freedom helped Apple address a couple of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that affected one of the company’s public-facing websites. This is another interview that’s meant to demonstrate that companies can work well with hackers when it comes to securing their systems again... |
11 May 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Rahul Tyagi, a respected ethical hacker from India, is about to release his latest work, a book called “Hacking Crux 2.” This is meant as a guide to anyone who wants to learn about hacking and defending themselves and others against cybercriminal plots. Because the book looks very promising, we have dec... |
4 May 2012
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The data breach that recently affected Global Payments caused a lot of concerns, especially after it came to light that around 1.5 million cardholders might have been impacted. Since some voices claimed that an unprotected administrative account might have been the source of the incident, we decided to ask for an o... |
11 April 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Back in November 2011, we revealed the inauguration of PwnedList, a great service which allows users to check if their accounts have been stolen by cybercriminals. Since then, some considerable improvements have been made to the site, including a daily monitoring service which warns individuals and companies in cas... |
26 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Last week Kaspersky experts came across a piece of malware that was signed with a stolen digital certificate in order to avoid detection. If the security experts concentrated on the malware itself, other companies such as Venafi, the inventor of enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions, focused th... |
25 March 2012
05:51 GMT |
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In the past months we’ve seen that financial malware evolved greatly, being permanently improved to ensure that its masters end up with tons of banking information swiped from unsuspecting Internet users. Most of the financial malware that lately dominated the threat landscape was covered in detail by Trusteer... |
23 March 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are a major concern these days for both companies and major websites, especially if they know they may be targeted by hacktivists. Security solutions provider Radware published a great report on the subject of DDOS attacks, busting some interesting myths and clarifying so... |
12 February 2012
05:21 GMT |
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The latest incidents surrounding the elections in Russia and the controversial company Carrier IQ have caused quite a stir in the media and that’s why I thought it would be a good idea to ask the opinions of some experts regarding these matters. Since they covered most of these subjects, I decided to speak wit... |
23 December 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Since black hat hackers that consider themselves to be hacktivists have been in the attention of the media lately, breaching the infrastructures of governments and major companies to prove their point, I thought it would be a great opportunity to find out not only about their operations, but also about the life of su... |
17 December 2011
08:01 GMT |
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In a world where companies fight a permanent battle to keep their infrastructures safe against cyberattacks, enterprise security and cloud-based systems take the main stage. After yesterday we’ve heard from a real black hat hacker what needs to be done to properly protect a website, now we’ll learn th... |
10 December 2011
12:21 GMT |
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On November 10, the world found out that the FBI arrested six Estonians for allegedly running the largest, most sophisticated cybercriminal scheme the world has ever seen so far. After two years of intense investigations conducted by the FBI in collaboration with Trend Micro, the operation was shut down, but the da... |
2 December 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Bitdefender recently released a much-awaited free product that integrates all their award-winning technologies. Called Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition, it is available only in Romania for now, but it promises to offer users one of the best free products on the market.Alex Balan, Senior Product Manager at Bitdefen... |
23 November 2011
11:34 GMT |
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Since Android devices became more widely used by companies and individuals alike, we thought it would be a great opportunity to get the insight of an expert on the matter.
Tom Moss, one of the founders of 3LM, a security solutions provider that stands for the Three Laws of Mobility, was kind enough to share his th... |
5 November 2011
09:21 GMT |
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The Hack in the Box conference in Malaysia is over, but our interviews continue with the last of the speakers who was willing to share his professional insight on some of the issues that currently affect the security industry.Benjamin Kunz Mejri, the founder of the Vulnerability Laboratory was kind enough to answer s... |
19 October 2011
14:11 GMT |
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The Hack in the Box conference has started today in Malaysia and before the speakers take the floor we rushed to the opportunity to talk to another industry expert who will soon share his experience with the world. Jimmy Shah, a mobile security researcher at McAfee will speak at the conference about mobile malware, ... |
10 October 2011
10:36 GMT |
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The long-awaited Hack In The Box conference in Malaysia is fast approaching and because we are an official media partner of the event, we took the opportunity to talk to some of the speakers that will enlighten us with their knowledge during the event. The first on our list is KaiJern Lau, currently the Technical D... |
8 October 2011
08:31 GMT |
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We recently had the chance at the Hack in the Box 2011 security conference in Amsterdam to speak about PDF malware with security researcher Didier Stevens. But Mr. Steve Adegbite, a senior security strategist at Adobe Systems, was also on site to speak on a much awaited panel, so we took the opportunity to learn his ... |
3 June 2011
09:40 GMT |
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One of the primary attractions at the Hack in the Box 2011 Amsterdam security conference last week was Didier Stevens' two-hour lab session on malicious PDF analysis.The Belgian IT security consultant is seen as one of the industry's top PDF exploit experts and his analysis tools are used by resea... |
27 May 2011
10:07 GMT |
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Softpedia recently attended the Hack in the Box Amsterdam 2011 security conference where we caught up with Mr. Joe Sullivan, Facebook's chief security officer.Mr. Sullivan, who prior to taking up the CSO role, served as the company's associate general counsel, was at the conference to discuss Facebook'... |
24 May 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Microsoft is more open to open source than ever, and only plans to step up its efforts. This is the message I received from a recent conversation with Gianugo Rabellino, Sr. Director - Open Source Communities at Microsoft. I wrote an article about Rabellino joining Microsoft in January 2011, and I jumped at the chan... |
19 March 2011
07:43 GMT |
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Last week we had the chance to sit down in Prague with Mr. Ondřej Vlček, chief technology officer at AVAST Software, and ask him some questions about the company's new product line, avast! 6, as well as their plans for the future.Fortunately, Mr. Vlček was generous with his answers and revealed quite a few ... |
12 March 2011
06:52 GMT |
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During our visit at this year's Mobile World Congress, we've had the chance of getting a few moments out of the busy schedule of Mr. Michael Rayfield, the General Manager of NVIDIA's Tegra-oriented Mobile Business Unit.Since the interview was carried out just after the official unveiling of the Kal-El ... |
25 February 2011
10:19 GMT |
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When Apple launched its Mac App Store, everyone was curious to see how it would impact developers and Mac end users alike. Everyone except Freshcode, that is, the company behind Bodega. Bodega is actually the first, full-fledged Mac App Store, and it’s been around for over a year and a half now. Apple’s ... |
2 February 2011
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To me, it’s hard to believe that this long after the release of Windows 7 there are customers shrugging off Windows Next. And it is almost inconceivable to have exponents of the “wait for SP1 before upgrading” crowd not interested in the least in the first upgrade for Windows 7.I had the chance to c... |
23 January 2011
11:23 GMT |
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For the past several years, security experts from Sophos have actively kept users informed about the latest malware threats and attacks on the Internet. However, consumers might not be familiar with the company's products, because the UK-based security vendor only caters to businesses and organizations.We recent... |
24 December 2010
12:01 GMT |
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The “Network Your Computers & Devices Step by Step” ebook is now available for purchase and download from O’Reilly’s website with pre-orders for the print version also live, and we have a little surprise for you. A discount code that will allow our readers to cut the retail price of the book ... |
16 December 2010
11:12 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab is one of the anti-virus companies that helped pioneer many of the malware detection methods and protection technologies now used by the entire security industry. The vendor's security researchers are always on top of the latest threats, helping the company stay ahead of the game. So we saw fittin... |
11 December 2010
06:30 GMT |
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