Malware silently hijacks Facebook account and adds apps
Several months ago, when the operators of the Sality P2P botnet pushed out malware that not only collected usernames and passwords and sends them to the C&C servers but …
U.S. authorities hijack botnet by substituting C&C servers
The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have been granted by the federal court the permission to substitute the C&C servers of the massive Coreflood botnet with …
Smart grid cyber security revenue to rise
If smart grids can realize their full potential, consumers, utilities, nations, and even the earth itself will benefit. As with nearly any new technology, the industry focus …
External cyber security risks to surpass insider threats
57 percent of global C-level executives agree that in the next one-to-three years, external threats such as cyber-criminals will become a greater security risk than insider …
WordPress.com servers breached, source code presumed copied
Automattic – the web development corporation behind WordPress.com – has suffered a root break-in and a compromise of several of their servers. “We have been …
Why stealing at a security conference is a bad idea
ISC West is one of the biggest international security conferences, and practically every inch of the expo floor has a camera or two trained on it. You would expect that such a …
Popular web stores vulnerable to “free shopping” exploits
A recently published paper titled “How to Shop for Free Online” presents the depressing results of a security analysis of some of the most popular online stores, …
“Request rejected” spam campaign leads to fake AV
A spam email campaign carrying a malicious attachment designed to download and run a fake AV solution on the recipient’s computer is currently hitting inboxes around the …
French hacker and alleged Anonymous member arrested after bragging on TV
A French hacker has effectually tied a noose around his own neck when he bragged about hacking into the systems of a big government contractor on national TV. He participated …
Self-wiping hard drives from Toshiba
Toshiba announces a family of self-encrypting hard disk drives (HDDs) engineered to automatically invalidate protected data when connected to an unknown host. The new Toshiba …
IT data management concerns
LogLogic announced the findings to an IT Data Management survey carried out amongst 164 IT managers and directors. The research aims to establish how IT data is being managed …
HD video security on the iPad
To help you keep tabs on your home or office anytime, anywhere, Logitech introduced the Logitech Alert app for iPad which makes it easy to access your Logitech Alert digital …
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