News :Security Threats: Face the Danger

Just today, I got an e-mail from “Hakin9 Newsletter newsletteren@hakin9.org” with the following content. As is

Russia Hackers are pleased to announce RH2.5 KIT ver 2011 that people can use to hack & secure computer systems by knowing exactly how a hacker would break into it.

Collection of Advanced Hacking Guides [...]

NEWS : Cisco MARS End of Life

Cisco have announced the End of Life for Cisco MARS.

“Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System. The last day to order the affected product(s) is June 3, 2011.”

The end of an Era, for probably the largest deployed SIEM tool out there.

I think [...]

News : Gmail Users Make One Million Calls in 24 Hours

Google’s latest Gmail phone calling  feature hit the ground running with over one million phone calls placed from Gmail in first 24 hours the feature was available, Google said Thursday via Twitter.The big question is how many will make Gmail calls in the following 24 hours after people have gotten over the novelty of placing [...]

News : Cisco making a play for Skype?

Cisco is reportedly looking to buy Skype before the Internet phone provider goes public.

The blog TechCrunch posted over the weekend that Cisco made an offer for Skype before it completed its IPO process. The site attributed the unconfirmed information to “reliable sources.”

It would be a multibillion purchase as Skype is looking to raise [...]

News : Hackers winning the security battle, says Cisco

John Stewart said in the Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report that the hacking  industry is now so advanced that malware writers are copy-protecting their own wares and are better funded and more astute than the forces of IT security.

“Why do hackers succeed? They’re lucky, they’re patient and they’re brilliant. They’re also better funded than [...]