11-year-old VM escape bug opens host machines to compromise
CrowdStrike researchers have recently discovered a security vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive code used by many computer virtualization platforms, which could be …
BitTorrent releases free P2P private voice and text app
After an initial pre-alpha release in July 2014, BitTorrent’s peer-to-peer private voice and text app Bleep is finally available for curious Windows, Mac, iOS and …
Do ethics get in the way of security professionals?
While it’s convenient to think that the information security industry is made up of highly ethical individuals who make the right decision every time, a stressful …
Scammers are draining payment cards linked with Starbucks customer accounts
Scammers are actively targeting Starbucks customers and syphoning money from the credit or debit card they have tied to their Starbucks accounts.In order to perform this …
May Patch Tuesday delivers critical and important fixes
In this month’s Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released 13 security bulletins addressing 48 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Office, and Silverlight.Over half …
Data breaches lead to surge of spoofing attacks
The number of attacks on businesses is trending up as crimeware tools gain traction providing tools to fraudsters to automate cybercrime attacks leveraging the customer data …
Can you correctly identify phishing emails?
An Intel Security quiz presented ten emails and asked respondents to identify which of the emails were phishing attempts designed to steal personal information and which were …
CIOs are distracted by the business of keeping the lights on
75 percent of CIO respondents to a global survey stated their network is an issue in achieving their organizations goals. For almost a quarter of CIO’s polled, it is a …
Former employee claims cybersecurity firm extorted clients
Tiversa, a privately held cybersecurity company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been accused by a former employee of hacking and then trying to effectively extort money …
US Passport Agency contractor stole applicants’ data to steal their identities
Three women from Houston, Texas, stand accused of engaging in an identity theft scheme in which one of them, a contract employee of the Department of State Passport Agency, …
Cyber extortionists are hitting hedge funds
Hedge funds are increasingly targeted by cyber extortionists, John Carlin, US Assistant Attorney General for National Security, has warned the audience at the SALT hedge fund …
Man charged with attempted spear-phishing attack on U.S. Department of Energy
An indictment is charging a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with a total of four felony offenses in …