The Financial Times has reported that the White House computer network had been hacked into several times by computer experts from China and managed to obtain email communications between government officials on key issues. It would be fairly difficult to pinpoint exactly who is behind the attack, but the ...

Computer systems used by the Obama and McCain campaigns were reportedly hacked by an unknown "foreign entity," according to an account of the attacks published Wednesday. Tech experts at the Obama headquarters initially believed that the computer systems had been invaded by a computer virus. The next day, ...

XML firewalls generally protect Web services while residing in the DMZ between the hostile Internet and protected services. It is from this location they provide security policy enforcement for Web services and XML messages. To enforce security policy, the XML firewall validates message source, reads and modifies message headers, ...

The Federal Trade Commission urged Internet users to be on guard against e-mails that look as if they come from a financial institution that recently acquired a consumer's bank, savings and loan, or mortgage. "In fact, these messages may be from 'phishers' looking to use personal information -- account numbers, passwords, ...

clickjacking lets hackers and scammers hide malicious stuff under the cover of the content on a legitimate site. You know what happens when a car-jacker takes a car? Well, click-jacking is like that, except that click is the car. Clickjacking trace back to 1990 and now it is being used ...

Computer attackers continue their relentless march in improving their tools and techniques. The simple scanning of yesteryear has given way to powerful suites of bundled, automated scanning and exploitation tools. Straightforward backdoors have evolved into powerful kernel-mode RootKits, manipulating the very hearts of our systems. Covert channels exfiltrate sensitive ...

The following list can help you to make sure your computer is protected by invader. 1. Physical security. Keep doors locked if feasible. Install locks on accessible but attended machines. Install locks and alarms on machines left unattended. 2. Back up files. This should be done on all computers. 3. Use a surge ...

A botnet is a number of Internet computers that, although their owners are unaware of it, have been set up to forward transmissions (including spam or viruses) to other computers on the Internet. Any such computer is referred to as a zombie - in effect, a computer "robot" or ...

Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalize home pages with applications that could be tainted. Software that hackers can trick people into installing on "iGoogle" home pages can track users' activities and control their machines, SecTheory chief executive ...

We often listen in news papers, blogs and in other media about the fraud in which some one steal identity record of a person and use it unfairly. The question arises, how the criminals theft the identity record?. There are many ways to obtain your particular records but mainly based ...

It is better to keep a short pencil rather keeping a long memory. This quotation is by Shakespear. During Shakespear time there was no computer so no need to use passwords in applications. Now the scenario is different, one have to remember lot of passwords but one does not have ...

The functionality of myspace in respect of the e-mail importer raises privacy and security concerns. not everyone is savy with the feature. the feature allows you to login from the myspace account into your e-mail account and check who from your e-mail address book is on myspace. in the case of gmail ...