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Operation High Roller: a vast global financial fraud June 27th, 2012 - 09:15 am ET McAfee and Guardian Analytics have updated users about a global financial fraud that is deemed very sophisticated. Cyber criminals have tried to steal between 60 million and 2 ...

SSL/TLS: the most popular sites aren’t so safe April 30th, 2012 - 09:45 am ET SSL Pulse has taken a look at the SSL security protocol (or TLS) used on close to 200 000 of the most popular web sites in the world. Only 10% of them are considered as properly ...

Security: Mozilla reacts to Google funded study December 13th, 2011 - 01:42 pm ET For Mozilla, sandboxing isn’t everything. A precision made following the release of Accuvant Labs study.

Security: Firefox indirectly attacked by Google December 12th, 2011 - 09:38 am ET An Accuvant Labs study has compared to Google Chrome to Internet Explorer and Firefox, looking at which is the most secure web browser. The study was financed by Google.

Vulnerabilities: Google displaces Microsoft November 15th, 2011 - 01:24 pm ET In the third quarter, Google was the company which recorded the highest number of security vulnerabilities against it according to Trend Micro.

Social engineering malware: Google puts the advances made by IE9 into perspective August 23rd, 2011 - 09:11 am ET While NSS Labs has congratulated IE9 in the fight against malware carried by social engineering, Google points out that in the referenced study only 2% of the malware found on the ...

Industry not well prepared for cyber attacks April 20th, 2011 - 01:37 pm ET According to a report released by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) commissioned by McAfee, critical infrastructure is not ready for an eventual ...

Cybercrime: social networks and URL shortcuts most vulnerable April 06th, 2011 - 09:45 am ET In an annual report about the current tendencies of cybercrime, Symantec has identified social networks and URL shortcuts as the main sectors of attack.

Night dragon attacks petrol companies February 11th, 2011 - 09:15 am ET Since November 2009, computer attacks originating in China have been targeting petroleum, energy and petro-chemical companies.

Dirty Dozen: a precision about Google Chrome and others November 18th, 2010 - 09:10 am ET Bit9 has provided more clarity around their Dirty Dozen ranking where Google Chrome came out as the leader for the applications which had the most number of vulnerabilities ...