While web applications continually evolve and adapt to new technologies, hackers evolve too. At first glance, it may seem like a never-ending cycle of hackers gaining mastery over new technologies. But a deeper look into web-application vulnerabilities shows that the root causes of these vulnerabilities have remained fairly constant over the last decade.
A do-it-yourself phishing kit is making it easy for amateur scammers to target users of popular social networking sites Orkut, MySpace and Facebook and webmail platforms like Yahoo and Hotmail, researchers said.
Spam emails, purporting to deliver a money-transfer notification from Western Union but containing an attachment with an executable trojan, have been spotted in the wild by researchers at Sunbelt Software.
A Florida woman, fearing she was about to be fired from her job, was arrested this week for allegedly deleting seven year's worth of her employer's architectural data.
Microsoft defended the security posture of its Vista operating system (OS) this week, claiming the platform has had a safer first year in terms of vulnerability management than any of its competitors.
Fortinet researchers have discovered a new socially engineered Symbian OS worm they say is actively spreading on mobile networks as users unwittingly send the malware to their unit's entire address book.
Consumer peer-to-peer (p2p) internet applications are growing at a blistering pace. Evidence is everywhere: worldwide, users send more than 10 billion instant messages every day.
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