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Canadian government networks breached by Chinese hackers?

When it comes to covert cyber attacks on government networks, it somehow seems that they can always be traced back to servers in China. It is always acknowledged that that …

Moderately critical MS Windows vulnerability revealed

Information about a critical Microsoft Windows SMB browser election request parsing vulnerability turned up two days ago on the Full Disclosure mailing list and further …

A Trojan-Clicker for Android spotted

A new Android Trojan – dubbed HongTouTou or ADRD – has been spotted targeting Chinese-speaking users. Repackaged with popular Android applications and games, it is …

Sun Java by far the most vulnerable plug-in

Wondering how secure your browser is? Today at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek presented their research which clearly shows that browser …

Fake tax payment rejection notice delivers Zeus variant

The latest IRS-themed spam campaign carries a deadly attachment – a variant of the infamous Zeus Trojan, warns Appriver. The e-mail, purportedly coming from the Internal …

Company wants to bundle spying app in legitimate Android game

How can one deliver spyware to a large number of unsuspecting users? The right answer to that question is – unfortunately – not a unique one, but among the methods …

HBGary e-mails are a treasure trove for social engineers

The recent publication of the second batch of corporate e-mails exchanged between HBGary and HBGary Federal executives and various contacts in US intelligence, military and …

Two BBC sites serving malware via injected iFrame

A piece of malware detected by only 21 percent of the anti-virus solutions used by VirusTotal is currently being pushed onto unsuspecting visitors of the BBC 6 Music and BBC …

“Reporter had a stroke on live TV” Facebook scam

A Facebook survey scam currently targeting the social network’s users tries to lure them in by promising to deliver a video of a CBS newsreader that has supposedly …

Lush takes down two regional sites following another hack

Last month’s compromise of the UK website of the natural ingredients cosmetic firm Lush and the theft of its customers’ credit card details must have hurt the …

Israeli general claims Stuxnet attacks as one of his successes

The latest results of a Symantec study concentrating on the Stuxnet worm revealed that its developers knew what they were doing – once finished, it took only 12 hours to …

Chrome extension for blocking and reporting content farms to Google

It is a well-known fact that to search for a product review on Google has become almost pointless, and that the search engine is continually battling the rising number of …

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