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New SOCs 

New SOCs

In Networks - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 8 November 2011 2:51 AM
Organisations have built situation rooms to protect data and respond to threats.
Facebook and the bug hunters 

Facebook and the bug hunters

In Hackers - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 2 November 2011 4:31 PM
The sometimes dangerous business of vulnerability disclosure is becoming profitable.
The path of privacy 

The path of privacy

In Risk - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 7 October 2011 9:54 AM
How US schools maintain the privacy of 55 million students.
Digitial investigations have matured 

Digitial investigations have matured

In Crypto - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 2 August 2011 11:18 AM
Forensics enables you to understand and prevent breaches.
Security pros should trust noone 

Security pros should trust noone

In Risk - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 2 June 2011 11:56 AM
The zero-trust network framework, in which security is embedded into the network offers protection from threats and helps isolate and contain damage if an incident arises, but ...
NZ researchers find SCADA holes 

NZ researchers find SCADA holes

In Hackers - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 13 May 2011 7:16 AM
The US Cyber Emergency Response Team has warned of a critical vulnerability in two popular SCADA systems, found by security-assessment.com.
New Zeus version targeting Firefox users for bank fraud 

New Zeus version targeting Firefox users for bank fraud

In Hackers - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 22 April 2010 10:12 AM
Uses HTML injection and transaction tampering techniques.
Avalanche the most prolific phishing group of 2009 

Avalanche the most prolific phishing group of 2009

In Messaging - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 27 October 2009 9:21 AM
A criminal phishing group called Avalanche was responsible for nearly a quarter of all phishing attacks identified during the first half of this year, according to a recently ...
New Halloween-themed spam just the first fright 

New Halloween-themed spam just the first fright

In Web/client - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 26 October 2009 1:13 PM
With Halloween nearing, users should be on alert for spam and other attacks exploiting the holiday, and experts expect social network websites to serve as a major vector this year.
Twitter XSS vulnerability not yet fixed 

Twitter XSS vulnerability not yet fixed

In Messaging - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 27 August 2009 10:43 AM
Claims patch doesn't work.
Adobe ColdFusion, JRun updated for critical issues 

Adobe ColdFusion, JRun updated for critical issues

In Applications - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 18 August 2009 3:49 PM
More patches for the web design and development platform.
Spam back up to pre-McColo levels 

Spam back up to pre-McColo levels

In Messaging - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 1 April 2009 10:31 AM
Four months after the highly publicised takedown of the McColo web-hosting company, in which worldwide spam levels dropped by around 70 percent, the prevalence of junk mail has ...
23 per cent of users fall for spear phishing 

23 per cent of users fall for spear phishing

In Hackers - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 11 March 2009 10:36 AM
A new study found that 23 per cent of people worldwide will fall for spear phishing attacks.
Firefox update addresses multiple security issues 

Firefox update addresses multiple security issues

In Applications - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 6 March 2009 11:11 AM
Mozilla has issued Firefox 3.0.7, which fixes multiple security issues that could potentially cause an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer, cause a denial-of-s...
Obama appoints "first ever" federal CIO 

Obama appoints "first ever" federal CIO

In Risk - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 6 March 2009 11:04 AM
President Obama has appointed the first-ever federal chief information officer (CIO).
Users increasingly falling victim to malware distributed on Digg, YouTube 

Users increasingly falling victim to malware distributed on Digg, YouTube

In Applications - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 4 March 2009 10:38 AM
Infection of the adware called "VideoPlay," which has been spreading through malicious posts and comments on Digg and YouTube, increased 400 percent from January to February, ...
Blueprints of Obama's Marine One helicopter leaked on P2P 

Blueprints of Obama's Marine One helicopter leaked on P2P

In Web/client - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 3 March 2009 11:59 AM
The blueprints for US president Barack Obama's helicopter, Marine One, were downloaded from a peer-to-peer (P2P) network and onto a computer in Iran, a file-sharing monitoring ...
Spoofed Delta Airlines emails contain trojan 

Spoofed Delta Airlines emails contain trojan

In Messaging - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 2 March 2009 10:41 AM
Emails spoofed to look like they are coming from Delta Airlines to confirm a ticket purchase are attempting to infect users with a trojan, according to a Belgium-based security ...
Microsoft says password stealers pose biggest threat 

Microsoft says password stealers pose biggest threat

In Web/client - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 24 February 2009 11:20 AM
The top two threat families on Microsoft's detection and removal list this month are online game password stealers (PWS).
Spam poses as CNN story about Israel-Hamas conflict 

Spam poses as CNN story about Israel-Hamas conflict

In Messaging - By Angela Moscsaritolo, 12 January 2009 3:31 PM
Cybercriminals are leveraging the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza to dupe users into visiting malware-laden websites through spam claiming to be from CNN.
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