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Goodbye … this website is for sale
It's hard to say goodbye ... With some sadness we took te decision to no longer update this website. We started it as a way to inform people about IT … [Read More...]
Stanford lawyers say that legal initiatives might cripple DNS in the future
Legal experts are warning that the proposed PROTECT IP and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation, currently working their way through Congress, will … [Read More...]
Iran takes measures to safeguard websites
Iran has moved most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting companies to new computer facilities inside the country, to protect them against cyber … [Read More...]
Windows 8 will offer picture password signon
The experience of signing in to your PC with touch has traditionally been a cumbersome one. In a world with increasingly strict password requirements—with … [Read More...]
Twitter followers of Lady Gaga tricked by iPad scam
When Lady Gaga speaks, her millions of die-hard "little monsters" listen. So when a message appeared on the pop icon's official Facebook page this morning … [Read More...]
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Actively exploited flaws plugged by Adobe
Adobe has released updates for its Reader and Acrobat … [Read More...]
East European Visa breach results in 17000 suspended credit cards
Our friends from Sophos Labs are reporting that Visa is … [Read More...]
Young employees don’t care about IT security says Cisco
Cisco researchers uncovered a startling lack of concern … [Read More...]
Classified files found on WikiLeaks linked to Bradley Manning
Classified files downloaded to the computer of Army … [Read More...]
CIA lost stealth drone captured true GPS navigation spoofing ?
Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact … [Read More...]
Apple’s iCloud and iTunes store have “Fatal internal errors”
Apple fanbois have been shut out of their iTunes store and … [Read More...]
Beijing government tightens controls on blogs
The Beijing city government said on Friday it would tighten … [Read More...]
UK computer science student hits 9th place in US digital forensics challenge
A computer science student from Lancaster University has … [Read More...]
Russian cyberchief says the internet must have “reasonable regulation”
The Internet must be subject to "reasonable regulation," the … [Read More...]
Globalsign releases security incident report on Comodo hacks
In relationship to the security incident that the … [Read More...]
Anti-suicide app could help soldiers nationwide
The Tennessee National Guard has launched a pilot program … [Read More...]
Organized malware campaign targets defense and chemical industries
More than two months after the discovery of an organized … [Read More...]
Fake news of Hugo Chavez’s death leads to malware
Internet users in Latin America were the intended victims of … [Read More...]
Attack disables text messaging on Windows phones
Microsoft Windows phones contain a flaw an attacker can … [Read More...]
Hacker behind Gene Simmons (known from KISS) website hack arrested
A man accused of being part of the hacking group Anonymous … [Read More...]
Microsoft Plans Patches for 20 Bugs in December Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released 13 security bulletins to fix 17 different … [Read More...]
European Union to outline Internet freedom strategy
The European Union will outline a strategy on Monday to … [Read More...]
Blue Coat Acquired by Thoma Bravo for $1.3 Billion, Will Go Private
Blue Coat Systems agreed to a $1.3 billion buyout by private … [Read More...]
Google’s Opt-In Facial Recognition Avoids Facebook’s Missteps
Google+ Find My Face is an opt-in service that uses facial … [Read More...]
OpenDNS has released an open-source tool to encrypt DNS traffic
Domain Name System services provider OpenDNS has released an … [Read More...]
Vendor Articles
Your Future Identity: The Ever Expanding Identiverse
There has been a definite change in the way that we are using computers. We now have a sense of owning computers, whereas previously they were generally owned by our employers. Even home based PC’s … [Read More...]
Clouds of confusion – Interoute’s view on Cloud Security
It’s easy to forget from the constant barrage of marketing messages and hype that heralded the arrival of cloud computing that we’re still in the early days of enterprise adoption. Given the wave … [Read More...]
Businesses’ mobile regulations are not up to speed with technology
Today we are faced with a wide range of innovative, feature-rich mobile devices. According to a recent report highlighted in the Wall Street Journal, 65 percent of Fortune 100 companies are already … [Read More...]
Featured Articles
Social Engineering : what is it, and how to defend yourself
Cyber security is an increasingly serious issue for the complete world with intruders attacking large corporate organizations with the motive of getting access to restricted content. CSI Computer … [Read More ...]
An introduction to Penetration Testing with the Metasploit Framework
With "Penetration Testing tool" the first thing that comes to your mind is the world's largest Ruby project, with over 700,000 lines of code called : 'Metasploit'. No wonder it had become the … [Read More ...]
Hey YOU! Why not write articles for this site ?
In the spirit of "Yes, You Can !". If you feel like sharing your knowledge in the field of Information Security, you can now. We are looking for contributors who are willing to share on a … [Read More ...]
Free Web Content Filtering for your home (and small businesses)
Web filtering is possibly the most controversial category of products we are listing in our free security software series. As a parent of a couple of adolescents I feel the need to protect my … [Read More ...]
Our 5 free antivirus solutions for Windows and OS X
In this networked world where computer malware like trojans, worms, viruses, ... and other nuisances are a vivid topic amongst the computer users of today, antivirus programs are one of the key … [Read More ...]
TrueCrypt : State of the art encryption for free
TrueCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. It's main features are: Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as … [Read More ...]
LastPass gets your passwords secure and out of your way
Nowadays we are all using a lot of websites. Some of them need login credentials such as a userid and a password to perform actions on them. It can be as simple as buying a book, but it can also be … [Read More ...]
Common Sense – the best FREE tool to keep safe
Guest Post by Antonello Cuschieri. The world is full of strange people, but the Internet is even worse. It didn’t take much time for crooks to understand that the Internet has given them the … [Read More ...]
Everybody has a role to play in corporate security awareness; but management is key
Raising security awareness is a role which needs to be played by everyone, but in the corporate world it's a role which needs top performances of management and those who are responsible for … [Read More ...]
10 things you can do for safer computing
It is true, safe computing starts with yourself. You may have a lot of good security measures in place, like antivirus, firewall, spam checker, and so on ... but if you are the weakest link in the … [Read More ...]
Product Reviews
Catching the thief with a touch of Prey
If you have ever had your laptop stolen, you know the feeling. All those really important files on that machine : gone. All the data about yourself : … [Read More ...]
iPad : secure or not ?
We at ITsecurity.be are great fans of Apple technology because most of the time their stuff "just works". Which for most users is all they … [Read More ...]
