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Operation Emmental exploits holes in banking security

Trend Micro researchers have discovered and analyzed a clever attack aimed at customers of Austrian, Swiss, Swedish, and Japanese banks. They dubbed it Emmental, after the …

Android Simplocker ransomware hits English-speaking users

Simplocker, the first Android ransomware that actually encrypts files located on the device, has begun to target English-speaking users, ESET researchers warn. The initial …

40% of orgs running VMware still susceptible to Heartbleed

More than three months have passed since the discovery of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, and many systems are still vulnerable. According to data collected by data analytics …

Facebook scams now lead to exploit kits

The Facebook scam is a familiar phenomenon to every user of the popular social network, and most of them have fallen for it at one time or another as it only takes a moment of …

Intentional backdoors in iOS devices uncovered

A researcher has revealed that Apple has equipped its mobile iOS with several undocumented features that can be used by attackers and law enforcement to access the sensitive …

Private contact, calendar sync service for Android

Open Whisper Systems has released Flock, a private cloud service for securely and privately syncing contacts and calendars between multiple mobile Android devices, and is …

Critical de-anonymization 0-days found in Tails

Tails, the security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution favoured by Edward Snowden, journalists and privacy-minded users around the world, sports a number of critical …

Metadata-hiding Dark Mail protocol soon to be reality

At the Hackers on Planet Earth X (HOPE X) conference held this weekend in New York, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden called for hackers, coders and developers to “help …

EFF invites hackers to test, secure its Open Wireless Router

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released Open Wireless Router, an experimental alpha release of wireless router software that is meant to improve some and add new …

Computer Incident Response and Forensics Team Management

In this day and age, it's only a matter of time when an organization's systems and networks will be breached by cyber attackers. Having an internal security incident response …

Unpatched OpenSSL holes found on Siemens ICSs

A number of Siemens industrial products have been found sporting four vulnerabilities in their OpenSSL implementation, which could lead to man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks or …

Mayhem malware ropes Linux, UNIX servers into botnets

A new malware that researchers have dubbed Mayhem is being used to target Linux and Unix web servers and has so far compromised over 1,400 Linux and FreeBSD servers around the …

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