Web Application Security Timeline RFC In order to know where we’re going, we have to understand where we have come from. I began wondering a couple of days ago, how did we get here? What was the evolution of web application security? To answer this question I decided to put…

A new social networking worm in the vein of Koobface is currently doing the rounds. A Naked Security reader, George, who had been exposed to it on Facebook reported it to us – unlike the majority of Facebook scams we report, this one actively infects your computer with malware instead…

More than a third of all malware that has ever existed was created by criminal gangs in 2010 alone according to the latest PandaLabs Annual Report. To be precise, the company found that 34 percent of all existing malware has been concocted by cybercriminals in the last year, banishing forever…

Belarussian police launched sweeping raids on opposition homes and offices as part of its crackdown on protests following Alexander Lukashenko’s reelection, rights groups said. Police raided the offices of a number of opposition leaders and seized computer equipment, rights group Vesna 96 said. Belarussian authorities detained more than 600 protestors…

LONDON, ENGLAND – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has “for his own safety” been moved to a segregation unit of the London prison where he is being held pending extradition to Sweden, one of his lawyers said Friday. “The prison authorities are doing it for his own safety, presumably,” lawyer Jennifer…

Posted on: Sunday, 9 January 2011, 08:07 CST The federal government’s investigation into WikiLeaks intensified after a federal judge approved a subpoena to Twitter ordering the popular messaging service to provide investigators all the data they have on five WikiLeaks activists. The move is further evidence of the Obama administration’s…

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – 01/09/11) – At the opening of NRF2011, AirTight Networks, the leading provider of wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS) and services, announced the launch of AirTight Cloud Services™ — a new suite of managed services which adds Wi-Fi access, branded as AirTight Secure Wi-Fi™, to its unique…

TEHRAN – Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said Wikileaks has exposed the Islamic regime’s “vulnerability” due to its government’s policies which have left Tehran without allies in the Gulf. US diplomatic memos released by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks have unveiled calls by Arab leaders in the Gulf for the destruction…

By Brandon Herring – bio | email CONWAY, SC (WMBF) – The Better Business Bureau has released its list of top scams in 2010 that we should continue to watch this year. Some of the scams have been problems for years, and some others are taking on new forms specifically…

KINGSTON, Ont. — The number of penitentiaries listed for expansion in a $2-billion federal prison-building boom will rise to more than two dozen Monday as Conservative MPs make announcements on eight prisons in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec. Postmedia News has learned that three minimum-security prisons in Ontario are each…