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TDoS-as-a-service ads pop up on publicly accessible forums

In the past, aspiring cybercriminals with no coding knowledge had to find a way into invite-only underground forums or had to spend hours in chat rooms to gain the trust of …

Cryptome site, Twitter and email account hacked again

Cryptome, the well-known online repository of documents concerning cryptography, freedom of speech, spying, and surveillance, has been hacked again on Monday night, says the …

Hackers pollute legitimate JavaScript code to spread malware

Most hackers have stopped creating malicious sites long ago and have reverted to hacking legitimate ones and booby-trapping them with exploit kits, malware or malicious …

Adobe Reader zero-day exploit spotted in the wild

Researchers form security firm FireEye have found in the wild a PDF file that exploits a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader. “Upon successful exploitation, it …

Global malicious websites increase by 600%

Year-over-year, the number of malicious web-based attacks increased by nearly 600 percent, according to Websense Security Labs. These attacks were staged predominantly on …

People worry more about being phished at home than at work

In a corporate world where workers are bombarded with an average of 6 phishing emails everyday and 60% of people fall for them, research released by PhishMe has found that …

ATM skimming ring compromised over 6,000 bank accounts

U.S. federal authorities have announced the filing of an indictment against two alleged leaders of an international scheme to steal customer bank account information using …

Flickr bug made users’ private photos public

A glitch in the Flickr matrix has resulted in intimate photos of a number of its users being made available for everyone to see after their permissions turned from …

Zscaler delivers big visibility security analytics

Zscaler unveiled new analytics technology that gives enterprise security professionals real-time visibility into all employee internet activity across web, cloud email, and …

Samsung unveils new cloud displays

Samsung announced its next-generation TC191W and TC241W thin-client and NC191 and NC241 zero-client cloud displays. The lines combine VDI and desktop virtualization for secure …

McAfee delivers unified rapid-response security management

McAfee is raising the bar on intelligent threat identification, time to respond and robust, unified security management with the latest updates to its security management …

Opportunistic scanning from cloud to endpoint

iScan Online introduces opportunistic security scanning from the cloud to any device. They perform internal PAN, PCI and Vulnerability scanning without installing software or …

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