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Brazilian govt sites found serving malware

Cyber crooks targeting Brazilian users have a well-documented predilection for banking Trojans, but every now and then they opt for other types of malware. Trend Micro …

Liberty Reserve founder arrested, site and service inaccessible

When the website of Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rica-based payment processor popular with cyber criminals, became inaccessible late last week, speculation about what caused were …

Scanner identifies malware strains, could be future of AV

When it comes to spotting malware, signature-based detection, heuristics and cloud-based recognition and information sharing used by many antivirus solutions today work well …

Zeus variants are back with a vengeance

After analyzing the feedback from the company’s Smart Protection Network, Trend Micro researchers have noted an upswing in attempted Zeus / Zbot Trojan infections. After …

Google set to upgrade its SSL certs

As a fine example of proactive security, Google has announced that it will be upgrading its SSL certificates to 2048-bit keys by the end of 2013. “We will begin …

Facebook phishers target Fan Pages owners

Phishing emails claiming to come from “Facebook Security” are once again hitting users’ inboxes, and this time they are aiming for the big fish: pages that …

Google researcher reveals another Windows 0-day

Tavis Ormandy – the Google researcher known for discovering a slew of Windows, Java and Flash Player vulnerabilities and zero-days and his combative attitude regarding …

DHS employees’ info possibly compromised due to system flaw

U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees have begun receiving notifications about a vulnerability that has inadvertently made their personal information potentially …

The dangers of downloading software from unofficial sites

Because malware peddlers often bundle their malicious wares with legitimate software, downloading anything from unofficial download sites is a bit like playing Russian …

Twitter finally offers 2-factor authentication

Following a slew of high-profile compromises of accounts belonging to media outlets such as AP and satirical news site The Onion, Twitter has finally implemented two-factor …

Microsoft decrypts Skype comms to detect malicious links

The issue addresses last week by The H and their associates at heise Security of whether or not Microsoft checks links contained in encrypted Skype chat sessions and their …

Logging and Log Management

Every security practitioner should by now be aware of the overwhelming advantages of logging and perusing logs for discovering intrusions into systems. But logging and log …

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