Microsoft unveils state-of-the-art Cybercrime Center
Microsoft announced the opening of the Microsoft Cybercrime Center, which combines Microsoft’s legal and technical expertise as well as tools and technology with …
Spam campaign doubles on threats
Some malware peddlers might be moving on from using the Blackhole exploit kit to deliver malicious code, but others are still not ready to give up on it, as proven by a spam …
Alliance dedicated to wireless biometric authentication launched
Natural Security has announced the launch and newly elected governing board of the world’s first open Alliance dedicated to secure transactions based on wireless and …
Compromised Adobe accounts include military and government users
The Adobe hack is truly gargantuan, what with all the stolen source code of a number of extremely popular software and the exfiltrated database containing user email …
Microsoft announces retiring of SHA-1
Along with the standard security advisories released on this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has also released a few that announce the company’s intention to …
Sinowal and Zbot Trojan collaborate in new attack
Trend Micro researchers have recently come across an interesting example of malware collaboration involving the Zeus banking Trojan and a new variant of the password-stealing …
Microsoft updates the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit
The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a utility that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited. EMET uses security mitigation …
CSA launches new Software Defined Perimeter initiative
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) launched the Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) Initiative, a project to develop an architecture for creating highly secure and trusted …
New secure USB Flash drive from Kingston Digital
Kingston released the DataTraveler Vault Privacy 3.0 (DTVP) secure USB Flash drive, as well as the DataTraveler Vault Privacy 3.0 Anti-Virus, which helps enterprises safeguard …
Fake Facebook password request email carries malware
Not ones to miss an opportunity, malware peddlers are piggybacking on the fact that Facebook is blocking the accounts of certain users and demanding they change their …
IBM to acquire Fiberlink Communications
IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Fiberlink Communications, a mobile management and security company. Financial terms were not disclosed. With Fiberlink’s …
MacRumors forums hacked, 860k user passwords compromised
The popular user forum MacRumors has suffered a breach and is advising the entirety of its 860,000-strong user base to change their passwords as soon as possible. The hack was …