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Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine
Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

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Dancho Danchev

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Dancho Danchev

Dancho Danchev
Dancho Danchev is an independent security consultant and cyber threats analyst, with extensive experience in open source intelligence gathering, and cybercrime incident response. He's been an active security blogger since 2007, and maintains a popular security blog sharing real-time threats intelligence data with the rest of the community on a daily basis. More details on Dancho Danchev's current and past professional affiliations, can be found in his LinkedIn profile. You can also follow him on Twitter

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  • Google tops comparative review of malicious search results

    By Dancho Danchev | July 30, 2010, 11:35am PDT

    A two-month study by Barracuda Labs, reviewing more than 25,000 trending topics and 5.5 million search results, names Google as the most popular search engine used by malicious attackers relying...

  • Hacker breaks into ATMs, dispenses cash remotely

    By Ryan Naraine | July 28, 2010, 5:18pm PDT

    Using home-brewed software tools and exploiting a gaping security hole in the authentication mechanism used to update the firmware on automated teller machines (ATMs), a security researcher hacked...

  • Apple patches Safari Auto-Fill security hole

    By Ryan Naraine | July 28, 2010, 12:30pm PDT

    Apple has shipped a major Safari browser update to fix 15 documented security holes, including a known flaw in the browser’s AutoFill Web Forms feature that can be hacked to steal data from...

  • Microsoft ships anti-exploit tool for IT admins

    By Ryan Naraine | July 28, 2010, 12:07pm PDT

    The tool, called Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) works by applying security mitigation technologies to arbitrary applications to block against exploitation through common attack vectors.

  • Middle East countries: the BlackBerry is a national security threat

    By Dancho Danchev | July 28, 2010, 11:29am PDT

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has described RIM’s device as a threat posing “serious social, judicial and national security repercussions” due to the country’s inability...

  • Adobe joins Microsoft's vulnerability-sharing club

    By Ryan Naraine | July 28, 2010, 11:18am PDT

    Adobe will give anti-virus, intrusion prevention/detection and corporate network security vendors a headstart to add signatures and filters to protect against security flaws in its widely deployed...

  • Microsoft at Black Hat: Community-based defense in force

    By Ryan Naraine | July 28, 2010, 8:30am PDT

    Microsoft’s Matt Thomlinson argues that community-based defense is important to fight cybercrime and stay ahead of malicious hacker attacks.

  • Google plugs 'high risk' Chrome security holes

    By Ryan Naraine | July 27, 2010, 2:19pm PDT

    Google has shipped a new version of its Chrome browser to fix three high-risk security holes that expose web surfers to malicious hacker attacks.

  • Indefinite vulnerability secrecy hurts us all

    By Ryan Naraine | July 27, 2010, 10:17am PDT

    Michal Zalewski: Indefinite vulnerability secrecy hurts us all by removing all real incentives for improvement, and giving very little real security in return.

  • Microsoft: No plans to pay for security vulnerabilities

    By Ryan Naraine | July 23, 2010, 8:47am PDT

    A Microsoft security official dismissed any suggestion that the company would start buying rights to security flaws, arguing that its current system of crediting hackers in security bulletins is...

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