The Pentagon is looking to hire 3,000 infosec pros
The US Department of Defense has gotten permission and is aiming to hire 3,000 infosec professionals to work at the US Cyber Command by the end of this year, and is set to …
μTorrent comes bundled with crypto-miner, users are furious
BitTorrent, the company responsible for the development of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol as well as that of μTorrent, a widely used torrent client, has been …
Three indicted for breaching Email Service Providers, monetizing stolen data
Viet Quoc Nguyen and Giang Hoang Vu, both citizens of Vietnam who resided for a period of time in the Netherlands, have been indicted on Friday for their role in a massive …
Data classification ranks in top 3 security controls
Bloor Research surveyed 200 senior IT security executives in the UK and the US, all with organizations that have more than 1,000 employees. More than half (54%) of …
Seagate acknowledges NAS 0-day, announces patch
After security researcher OJ Reeves publicly revealed the existence of a remote code execution zero-day flaw affecting Seagate’s Business Storage 2-Bay NAS line of …
UK: 57 arrested for cyber crime, including US DoD hacker
Last week was a busy one for UK law enforcement, as agents from the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) of the National Crime Agency (NCA) spearheaded a nationwide cyber crime …
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Week in review: FREAK flaw, a new PoS malware family, and the new issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: A threat assessment of 7 million iOS and Android apps Android malware is …
The C99Shell PHP backdoor lives on
The C99Shell PHP backdoor, originally spotted in 2007, is still around, and is still a danger to both web server operators and end-users. After getting a tip from a designer …
Fake “Flash Player Pro” update delivers password-stealing Trojan
Researchers are warning about a new malware delivery campaign aimed at spreading Fareit, a password-stealing Trojan that can also download additional malware. This campaign is …
Windows vulnerable to FREAK attacks after all
Microsoft has released a security advisory on Thursday, confirming that all supported releases of Microsoft Windows are vulnerable to the recently documented FREAK (Factoring …
Cryptowall makes a comeback via malicious help files
A new spam wave has hit hundreds of mailboxes with malicious .chm attachments to spread the infamous Cryptowall ransomware. Cryptowall is an advanced version of Cryptolocker, …
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