The scenario is quite common. A web server that has been running well suddenly starts acting sluggish, and then suddenly it falls over. The site is down. System administrators are investigating, and managers are wondering if the site is being …
A post on the Facebook developer blog has revealed that user will soon be able to grant access to their personal contact info. The post indicates Facebook application will soon be able to request access to current address and mobile …
The open-source ClamAV toolkit is officially moving into new territory- Windows. The new ClamAV 3.0 for Windows is now in open beta. ClamAV for Windows utilizes the cloud to aid with the propagation of new detection signatures. Evaluation downloads …
We’ve decided against putting together a top 10 list of security predictions for 2011. Plenty of lists have already been published. Obviously as we look to push more data into the cloud, the security of the cloud infrastructure and mobile …
Microsoft has published an advisory for all supported versions of IE. The advisory warns of a problem with a CSS-related function in IE6 through IE8. Malicious websites could take advantage of the vulnerability to run code of their choice …
Beware of the WORST GIFT EVER! We’ve received a couple of emails with this subject line. The emails pretend to be one of those massively over-forwarded holiday chain emails that circulate each year. Hoping to take advantage of everyone’s curiosity …
OpenBSD, one of our favorite operating systems, will soon be undergoing an audit. Theo DeRaadt has forwarded an email which he received to the OpenBSD tech mailing list. The email alleges that the FBI secretly placed back doors in …
It has been just over thirty minutes since CNN reported that WikiLeaks was under a DDOS attack. A DDOS or distributed denial of service attack is a network-based attack that attempts to overwhelm a service by sending it too …