nCircle statistics show rising Web application vulnerabilities

Web application security scanners are finding increasing numbers of coding errors, according to the latest statistics from compliance auditing vendor, nCircle.

The latest study by nCircle found that Web application vulnerabilities from 2007 to 2008 increased by 154% and are continuing to grow by 25% so far this year. But the growth occurred even as the total number of overall security flaws is decreasing, said the security vendor. 

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Twitter risks, Facebook threats trouble security pros

The explosive growth in social networking has positioned many security teams solidly between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, conscientious security executives cannot ignore the data loss and regulatory compliance risks to the corporation; on the other hand, security cannot politically survive by categorically objecting to other organizations innovative use of new business tools.

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Twitter vulnerability project highlights Bit.ly flaws

A security researcher highlighting vulnerabilities in third-party Twitter applications this month focused on several serious cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the popular Bit.ly link-shortening service.
Aviv Raff launched the Month of Twitter Bugs, showcasing the Bit.ly errors. Raff gave notice to Bit.ly programmers and in less than three hours the final flaw was patched.

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Protect Yourself on Facebook

Most of us are well know about facebook. Many are addicted to social networking sites for various reasons.

Love them or hate them; social networking sites are here to stay. And the users are going to find ways to use them from home, from work, from smart phones, from shared computers, or from anywhere else they care to.

The whipped cream is out of the can. Now what can we do about it?

I found some intresting article on esecurityplanet site which talks about "How to Protect Yourself on Facebook"

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Trojans are fastest-growing data-stealing malware

Most of the rise in cybercrime can be linked to data-stealing malware, and trojans are the fastest growing category, according to a report released Monday by Trend Micro.
For example, in 2007, 52 percent of data-stealing malware were trojans; in 2008, that number increased to 87 percent, according to the report, titled Focus Report: Data Stealing Malware.

As of the first quarter of 2009, 93 percent of data-stealing malware were trojans.

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New Trojan stealing FTP credentials, attacking FTP websites

Security researchers have discovered a new Trojan that has harvested as many as 80,000 unique FTP server logins and is now beginning to target domains, injecting malicious scripts into compromised FTP sites.

o far up to 74,000 unique FTP sites are affected, according to security vendor Prevx, which discovered a server containing the FTP credentials. The list of FTP websites contains some high profile names, including software resellers of security vendors Symantec and McAfee, Bank of America, Amazon.com and others have been compromised.

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Most Dangerous Web Searches

In a new report, McAfee identifies what popular search keywords are most likely to lead to malware. The answers may surprise you, and give you pause as you search for your favorite song lyrics on Google. Last year, Google detected one trillion unique URLs on the Web at once. The vehicle that gets users to those places is search, but within those trillion URLs are a lot of dark alleyways that are home to attackers.

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