In a report released by the Security firm Imperva on Thursday on the 32-million passwords recently exposed by a hacker from the site RockYou.com, it showed that despite severe security risks, people still use passwords as common as 123456.

SourceSec security research has unveiled a serious flaw in D-link routers, by which a hacker can get into and edit the settings of the router without having to enter the admin credentials.

According to an extensive study undertaken by Panda Security, about 10 million PCs all over the world are infected with ID theft malware, designed to steal secure information such as passwords, bank account information, etc.
Panda Security runs a free online scanner which helps users to check their PCs online for viruses and malware. The report come as a result of scanning about 67 million PCs all over the world. Considering that there are about a billion or so and growing number of computers around, the numbers could be much worse.
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Barely had facebook got a chance to revive itself from the last two attacks in a single week, another rogue application was seen making its rounds. This time, the end user was lead to a fake youtube site, complete with comments and all…

The last weekend, many Facebook users got a notification stating that some of their friends “has faced some errors when checking your profile”. It also provided a link for the user to click and “View the Errors Message” which would lead to a lot of personal information being shared by unsuspecting users. More details can be found in Trend Micro’s anti-malware blog.

Last afternoon, a similar threat surfaced on Facebook…

Recently an update from the iDefense Labs came out with a vulnerability found in the Adobe Flash Player plugin (version 10.0.12.36 and earlier), which is installed on browsers to view dynamic content on websites.

A hacker with criminal intentions can exploit this vulnerability by getting the target user to download a malicious Shockwave file. Once this is done, the attacker can…