US-CERT Current Activity Cisco Releases Security Advisory for Unified Communications Manager Original release date: August 27, 2009 at 8:20 am Last revised: August 27, 2009 at 8:20 am Cisco has released a Security Advisory to address multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified Communication Manager. These vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. [...]

Identifying Hoaxes and Urban Legends Chain letters are familiar to anyone with an email account, whether they are sent by strangers or well-intentioned friends or family members. Try to verify the information before following any instructions or passing the message along. Why are chain letters a problem? The most serious problem is from chain letters [...]

If you’re like the average user, you rarely give your PC’s power supply unit (PSU) a second thought. It doesn’t matter whether you’re buying a name-brand computer or the $600 special from your local computer supplier, only high-end gaming enthusiasts are likely to give the PSU a second thought. And in most cases, you shouldn’t [...]

Bad Power Supply And Bad Memory – Two Of The Most Common Hardware Problems Over the years I have repaired a lot of computer systems, and for the most part, computer hardware is fairly reliable. Though it does happen, it is somewhat rare to see a motherboard or cpu fail, unless the system is just [...]

Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on August 20, 2009 More than three years in the making, Trillian is back with a slight name change and a slew of new features. It’s keeping the beta code-name Astra as part of its official title, but more importantly it’s been updated for the modern IM world. Skinnable but not [...]

The announcement of a new U.S. Cyber Challenge by a coalition of government and private groups last month marks the latest salvo in what many agree is an increasingly serious shortage of skilled cybersecurity experts.

The distributed denial of service attack on Thursday that targeted Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and several Google sites may have been politically motivated. The reported target of these attacks was a blogger named Cyxymu from the Eastern European country of Georgia who is an outspoken supporter of his country. Facebook’s chief security officer, Max Kelly has [...]

Russian hackers hijacked American identities and U.S. software tools and used them in an attack on Georgian government Web sites during the war between Russia and Georgia last year, according to new research to be released Monday by a nonprofit U.S. group.

Hackers could take over your iPhone, according to security researchers who say Apple is aware of the problem.

And the method is chillingly simple – a text message containing one square character.

Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner say they have found a flaw in the way the phones handle text messages, which could allow hackers complete control of the handset.

Laptops tend to lose their charm quickly when you’re constantly looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up. How do you keep your battery going for as long as possible? Here are 15 easy ways to do so.

For the past five months, a website for investment services giant Ameriprise Financial contained bugs that allowed even low-level criminals to inject malicious content into official company webpages and steal user’s cookies, according to a web security expert.