SCADA flaws talk cancelled due to security fears
Since the advent of the Stuxnet worm, SCADA industrial control systems have been receiving a lot of attention. You would expect that since these systems are those that control …
ElcomSoft exposes information in BlackBerry backups
With BlackBerries occupying approximately 40 per cent of the North American market of business communicators and about 20 per cent of the market worldwide, accessing …
Mac Protector: Fake AV targets Mac OS X users
A little over two weeks have passed since the appearance of MAC Defender, the fake AV solution targeting Mac users. And seeing that the approach had considerable success, it …
Insider threats plague data managers
Financial services organizations struggle with human error, abuse of privileges more than most. Application Security, Unisphere Research, and the International Sybase Users …
Microsoft Web Application Configuration Analyzer 2.0 released
Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) is a tool that scans a server against a set of best practices recommended for pre-production and production servers. The list of …
A guideline for critical information infrastructure governance
ENISA launched a new publication on National Risk Management (NRM) preparedness. The report sets out the essential elements as a guideline for the governance of NRM in …
Stolen credit card numbers advertised via Twitter
You would expect online criminals to want to keep a low profile and restrict their attempts of selling stolen wares to shady online criminal forums, but every once in a while …
SpyEye Trojan attacks Verizon’s online payment page
Trusteer discovered a configuration of the SpyEye Trojan targeting Verizon’s online payment page and attempting to steal payment card information. The attack took place …
Journalist arrested for article on Facebook privacy flaw
Australian journalist Ben Grubb was arrested yesterday following the publication of an article he wrote about a demonstration of how to access Facebook photos even if they are …
Worrying trend in credit card data security
A new BitDefender study which has revealed some concerning statistics on the personal protection of credit card data. 97% of 2,210 respondents aged 18 to 65 said they …
Facebook scam uses fake YouTube CAPTCHAs
It seems sometimes that Facebook survey scams alternate between just to types of lures: “See you views your profile” and “OMG! I can’t believe …
HADOPI stops monitoring for copyright infringement due to breach
Trident Media Guard – the company tasked by the French High Authority for the Dissemination of Works and Protection of Rights on the Internet to monitor P2P networks and …