Ruby on Rails bug is being exploited in the wild, researcher warns
Administrators of servers running Ruby on Rails are advised once again to upgrade to the latest versions of the framework (3.2.11, 3.1.10, 3.0.19, and 2.3.15), as a …
Liberty Reserve laundered $6 billion through illegal transactions
An indictment has been unsealed on Tuesday charging Liberty Reserve, a company that operated one of the world’s most widely used digital currency services, and seven of …
Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty
Jeremy Hammond (aka “Anarchaos”), the Anonymous hacker that was charged last year with crimes relating to the December 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting …
Addonics releases CipherUSB family of hardware encryption solutions
Addonics Technologies announced a family of USB hardware encryption solutions that protect data stored on hard drives, removable drives, flash media, optical media or in the …
McAfee unveils Complete Endpoint Protection suites
McAfee introduced two new suites: McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection – Enterprise, and McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection – Business. The suites include McAfee …
Backup large data with Big Cloud
Sterling Data Storage released its largest data backup solution yet — the Big Cloud. It was designed for companies needing to securely store large amounts without sacrificing …
Can mobile malware be activated via sensors?
Can mobile malware be activated via sensors available on current mobile devices, and receive commands through out-of-band communication methods? If you ask a group of …
How secure is quantum cryptography?
Quantum communication systems offer the promise of virtually unbreakable encryption. Unlike classical encryption, which is used to send secure data over networks today and …
U.S. weapons systems designs reportedly stolen by hackers
Hackers – more than likely Chinese – have stolen designs for two dozen U.S. weapons systems during a series of raids, a previously undisclosed section of a report …
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 …
DNS anomaly detection: Defend against sophisticated malware
Not so long ago, the standard way of looking for a malware infection was to simply monitor web traffic. By looking, for example, for HTTP requests to google.com/webhp – …
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 …