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If your computer has never crashed, it’s because it has been built on another planet. The microprocessors we use are faster and more complex year after year, increasing the risks of being hit by ‘functional bugs.’ This is why University of Michigan (U-M) researchers have started to develop a system that lets chips [...]

Virus analysts at Kaspersky Lab have intercepted a new variant of Gpcode, a malicious virus that encrypts important files on an infected desktop and demands payment for a key to recover the data.

The biggest change in this variant of the ransomeware is the use of RSA encryption algorithm with a 1024-bit key, making it impossible to crack without

Biometric access control was one of the hot themes among exhibitors at the recent RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. Several companies showed off their wares, which include a back-end system for integrating biometric authentication into existing systems as well as readers for fingerprints and palms.

Passwords are not the best of security solutions, as enterprises and individual users have

Hundreds of thousands of websites, including ones owned by the UK Government and the United Nations have been hacked into and infected with malicious code that attempts to install malware on visitors’ computers.

The attackers are reported to be exploiting a security vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers. Microsoft said last week that it was investigating reports of an unpatched

‘Anti-Fraud Scheme’

Each time you give your credit card details to a phone agent or Web site, it can feel like you die a little — after all, you’ve just given away the keys to your personal kingdom.

Security experts nowadays are trying to help address this fear by developing disposable credit card numbers (DCCNs).

Under one new proposal, the disposable digits would be good only for a

‘New technique to remain anonymous’

A new technique to steal credit cards and remain unidentified is spreading on the Internet, numerous attackers preferring to donate money to charity in order to verify the validity of
the cards. This is quite an interesting method to avoid identification because the banks and the authorities are often ignoring the charity donations so it’s a little bit more difficult to block

‘The official Microsoft U.K. Domain was attacked and defaced by a hacker identified as rEmOtEr’

Microsoft confirmed that the hack has been successful. rEmOtEr altered a webpage in the Microsoft.co.uk domain with two images and multiple references to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The U.K. branch of the Redmond company managed to fix the problem, and the functionality of the website is back to normal parameters. The webpage