Conficker may be quiet now but it's still a threat

	iPhone, Safari, IE8, Firefox all fall on day one of Pwn2Own | US in search of Apple, cell phone forensic tools as online crime morphs
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	Conficker may be quiet now but it's still a threat My recent post on how botnets are operating like cloud providers provoked a lively discussion in the comments section about Conficker but mostly about world geography.I got on the phone this morning with Rodney Joffe, senior vice president and senior technologist at Neustar, whose presentation at the Cloud Connect conference last week in Silicon Valley was the basis for my post "The biggest cloud on... Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense Websense Security Labs State of Internet Security 2H09 Do you know just how adept Web adversaries have become in using the Internet to spread malware in their attacks? Understand where the true threats lie with this report which summarizes the significant findings of Websense researchers using the ThreatSeeker™ Network during the six-month period ending December 2009. 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Read More iPhone, Safari, IE8, Firefox all fall on day one of Pwn2Own Hackers took down Apple's iPhone and Safari browser, Microsoft's Internet Explore 8 (IE8) and Mozilla's Firefox within minutes at today's Pwn2Own contest, as expected. Read More US in search of Apple, cell phone forensic tools as online crime morphs The always evolving world of electronic crime is forcing law enforcement agencies  to look even harder for tools and digital evidence recovery technology to keep up.  Read More Researchers sound alarm on Web app "side channel" data leaks New research from Microsoft and Indiana University has found that data leaks from Web applications such as popular tax programs and online health programs - even when encrypted -- is a real and growing threat. According to the research, it's inevitable that a Software-as-a-Service application's data flow will be exposed on the network to some degree when passing back and forth between a web client... 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Read More Free app makes paid web scanners dead in the water Google's upgraded version of its automated Web application scanner, SkipFish, has received glowing reviews from local security experts. Read More Using social networks to establish a publicly verifiable level of trust… It's no secret that I'm fed up with how aspects of trust and assurance are established out on the Internet. After all, I have railed against the racketeering operations public CAs operate and the ornate processes people or organizations go through to establish a level of trust/assurance with their identities. In other words, establishing trust on the Internet is broken and it really needs to... Read More
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