WoW phishing email threatens with account termination
World of Warcraft players are often targeted by phishers whose goal is to get the login credentials to as many accounts possible and bleed them dry. A recently detected one …
Cyber attacks on US federal networks on the rise
The number of cyber attacks against federal government systems and networks has increased nearly 40 percent, says in the annual report on federal cybersecurity efforts …
Randomization of code and binaries for evading AV solutions
An interesting detection evasion technique by a site that serves fake AV has recently been spotted by a Zscaler researcher. The site’s source code has been randomized so …
How to wipe personal information off your mobile phone
People are unsuspectingly selling their personal information to complete strangers as a new report from CPP finds half (54%) of second hand mobile phones contain extensive …
Plagiarism detection tool
SAFE Corporation announced the release of DocMatch, a new tool for comparing all kinds of documents to find plagiarism. DocMatch compares thousands of document files in …
Infosecurity Europe 2011: New attack vectors change the landscape
The cybercrime landscape is changing with the overall cost to the UK economy estimated at £27bn per year, by a recent report by the Office of Cyber Security & …
TripAdvisor member database breached, part of it stolen
Just days after Play.com notified its customers of a breach that resulted in their email addresses being compromised and some of its users being targeted with malicious …
Serious cyber attack targets EU institutions on eve of summit
Today is the first day of the first EU summit that takes place under the Hungarian presidency, and European leaders have gathered in Brussels to discuss matters such as the …
Twitter tests XSS attack prevention on its mobile website
Twitter has been testing and has now implemented Content Security Policy – a new standard developed by Mozilla to block cross site scripting (XSS) attacks – on its …
Japan leakage analysis emails with malicious XLS attachments
Japan’s seemingly unending series of misfortunes has so far generated a vast variety of online scams. The latest one includes spam emails containing Excel attachments …
Find and eliminate credit card data
Nearly two-thirds of merchant computer systems store unencrypted payment card data in violation of the PCI DSS, according to scans of more than 475 merchant networks of all …
Password cracking in the cloud
Passware Kit Forensic is commercial software that enables users to harness the power of cloud computing to accelerate password recovery. It allows the use of Amazon Elastic …