Voice analysis technology prevents phone scams
Nagoya University and Fujitsu developed the first technology to analyze phone conversations to automatically detect situations in which one party might “over …
Top U.S. cities for phone loss
The findings from a phone loss study revealed that lost phones, if unrecovered, could cost U.S. consumers more than $30 billion this year. The analysis, from more than 15 …
Mozilla testing default Google search encryption in Firefox
Firefox users should soon have encryption turned on by default when searching for things online via the built-in Google search engine, Mozilla confirmed. The change has been …
Top cause of data breaches? Negligent insiders
Negligent insiders are the top cause of data breaches while malicious attacks are 25 percent more costly than other types, according to the Ponemon Institute. The study also …
Surge in mobile exploits and shell command injection attacks
IBM released the results of its X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report which shows surprising improvements in several areas of Internet security such as a reduction in application …
Video surveillance on Cisco Unified Computing System
Cisco announced that its Video Surveillance software is available on the Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform, now in use by more than 11,000 customers. Cisco …
A peek in the world of vulnerability sellers
As you probably already know, this year’s edition of Pwn2Own wasn’t the only hacking contest at the CanSecWest conference held earlier this month. Pwn2Own rules …
Georbot information stealing Trojan uncovered
ESET revealed its analysis of Georbot, an information stealing Trojan and botnet spreading in the country of Georgia. Earlier this year ESET’s global research team …
Google educates Gmail users on spam
Educating computer users about security is something that every online service should consider doing, and I’m glad to see that Google has started explaining why its …
Mousetrap Trojan steals money by chain reaction
Catalin Cosoi, Chief Security Researcher at Bitdefender warns of a new Trojan that robs your bank account. The new Mousetrap campaign starts with a Java applet that has been …
Mobile forensics and cloud security at SANS Secure Europe 2012
SANS Secure Europe 2012, one of the region’s largest infosec training events will be returning to Amsterdam from 5th to 19th of May with its largest roster of courses …
Duqu developers still active, researchers say
Duqu, the infamous remote access Trojan first discovered in November 2011 and thought to have been created by the same authors as Stuxnet, is still getting modified by its …
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