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Hacktivism and social engineering emerge as top threats

Hacktivism and more profit-oriented malware, social engineering and malicious codes with the ability to adapt to avoid detection will be the main threats in the coming year, …

Week in review: Assange arrested, 2011 threat landscape and first VoIP call from space

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: McAfee’s Secure Short URL Service not so secure M86 Security Labs’ …

Growth in social networking, mobile and infrastructure attacks

IID released its list of the top enterprise security trends for 2011. Some specific areas that will have significant spikes in attacks are social networking, mobile, and …

Amazon profiles abused by spammers and malware pushers

Experience has proven that if a site enables users to contribute content, this feature will be abused by those who want to push their own agenda – usually spammers. This …

Using social networks safely

Everyone uses social networks like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Although these fantastic sites do have their upside, they also open users up to more computer viruses and …

Exploit code for still unpatched 0-day used by Stuxnet released

After Stuxnet hit, it was discovered that it took advantage of four previously unknown Windows zero-day vulnerabilities to spread and compromise targeted systems. Three of …

GoDaddy-hosted websites injected with malicious code

Webmasters of websites hosted on GoDaddy have to check their source code yet again, as attackers using a number of different domains inject rogue code into their pages, which …

Fake Twitter warnings lure users to potentially malicious site

Twitter users are often targeted with various fake messages purportedly coming from the microblogging service, and these e-mails usually try to trick the users into clicking …

Fake AV pushers poison US election search results

The US midterm elections are taking place today, and scareware pushers aren’t sitting with their hands crossed – they have poisoned related search results: Search …

25% of all targeted attacks hit the retail sector

Analysis reveals that targeted attacks have increased significantly since they were first discovered five years ago from one to two attacks per week in 2005 to 77 attacks per …

Comodo Internet Security 2011 released

Comodo released its Internet Security Manager 2011 software which offers malware prevention together with central administration features. New in version 2011 are behavior …

Social media sites and universities increasingly targeted by phishers

Social media sites and educational institutions were increasingly targeted by phishers who continued to expand the targets of their attacks in the first half of 2010. With …

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