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Facebook announces two new security features

In the face of ongoing criticism about the social network’s security efforts, Facebook has taken the wraps off two new security features – SSL connections and social authentication.
26 January 2011

US comes in on top in attack IP data streams says report

The latest quarterly internet report from Akamai Technologies claims to show that the Netherlands has achieved the world's highest percentage of connections in the 5–10 Mbps speed range.
26 January 2011

Latest Opera vulnerability shows that all web browsers should be viewed as potentially insecure

The latest security vulnerability of the Opera web browser, which revolves around what researchers are claiming to be a zero-day security flaw, is proof – if it were ever needed, says Idappcom – that all browser clients should be regarded as insecure.
26 January 2011

Facebook ramps up security to beat Tunisian government hacking

Facebook has quietly ramped up security on Tunisian-based accounts on its social networking sites, forcing users, whether verified or not, to use its CAPTCHA security interface.
26 January 2011

First decade of the century a boon for cybercrime, says McAfee

Cybercrime has exploded over the last decade, growing by double digits year after year, according to a new report by McAfee Labs.
25 January 2011

NATO begins implementation of cyber shield plan

Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn is meeting this week with his NATO and European Union (EU) counterparts in Brussels to begin implementation of the alliance's cybersecurity defense plan.
25 January 2011

Spam level dips

The recent decline in global spam was the result of a halt in the spam-sending activities of three botnets and unrest among pharmaceutical spam-sending gangs, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report has revealed.
25 January 2011

Anonymous hacking group uses IRC channels to co-ordinate DDoS attacks

It's been a while since the loosely-grouped Anonymous hacking group caused a sensation by organising a series of DDoS attacks against a number of high profile financial sites linked with snubbing WikiLeaks.
25 January 2011

Beware of scam tax return emails

With under a week to go before the taxman starts fining people for failing to file their tax returns on time, Websense has warned that internet users should beware of the latest rash of scam emails that supposedly come from HMRC.
25 January 2011

Food and beverage industry tops Trustwave list of industry data breaches

The food and beverage industry is the most breached industry from an information security perspective, making up more than half of all industry data breaches in 2010, according to the Trustwave 2011 Global Security Report.
24 January 2011

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