Would you publicly report a security breach?
Recent research by AlienVault revealed that only 2% of surveyed EU companies would be willing to go public should they suffer a security breach. 38% opted to inform the …
Fake “Secure Document” notice will compromise your email account
Phishers have lately shown a penchant for using the “secure / confidential document / message” lure for making users share their login credentials. The latest …
Got malware?
94.7 percent of Americans received at least one email containing a virus, spyware, or malware, according to Halon. About one in eleven (8.8%) opened the attachment and …
New protection mechanism prevents mobile cross-app content stealing
A group of researchers from Indiana University and Microsoft Research have recently published a paper detailing the risk of cross-origin attacks on two of the most popular …
HP releases Fortify Static Code Analyzer 4.0
HP announced Fortify Static Code Analyzer (SCA) 4.0, delivering a new approach that enables organizations to assess the security of software up to 10 times faster than …
Xceedium extends security capabilities to VMware vShield and vCloud
Xceedium is extending Xsuite’s security and audit capabilities to VMware vShield and vCloud. Customers using VMware’s software-defined datacenter tools and its …
Researchers detail attacks for compromising Dropbox user accounts
Dropbox, the popular file hosting service that has managed to amass over 100 million users in the five years since it was launched, has had its fair share of problems: …
Hacker admits to selling access to company networks, supercomputers
A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today to charges stemming from his participation in a scheme to hack into computer networks and sell access to those networks. Andrew James …
NYT, Twitter, HuffPo sites disrupted by Syrian hacker group
Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army have managed to hijack, deface and / or make unavailable the websites of The New York Times, Huffington Post UK and one of Twitter …
Shielding targeted applications
When we discuss exploit prevention, we often talk about “targeted applications.’ This term refers to end-user applications which can be exploited by hackers for …
Kelihos botnet: What victims can expect
Kelihos is a botnet which utilizes P2P communication to maintain its CnC Network. With all of the attention around Kelihos, it should be no surprise that 30/45 AV vendors are …
The current state of application security
New research offers a better way to understand the maturity of an organization’s application security program in comparison to the core competencies of high-performing …
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