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Hand of Thief Linux Trojan fails to work as promised

RSA researchers have recently spotted a banking Trojan targeting Linux systems being sold online by a cybercrime team based in Russia. Dubbed Hand of Thief by its creator(s), …

AT&T’s massive call detail record database accessible to DEA agents

Since 2007, AT&T employees have been working side by side with US Drug Enforcement Administration and local law enforcement agents, helping them access electronic call …

Arbor Networks acquires Packetloop

Arbor Networks has acquired privately held Packetloop, an innovator and provider of Security Analytics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Arbor plans to invest in and …

Persistent adversaries can identify Tor users

Using the Tor network will not you grant perfect anonymity – in fact, a group of researchers from the US Naval Research Laboratory and Georgetown University say that …

NetTraveler APT group is back, adds watering hole attacks to its arsenal

The “Red Star” APT group employing the NetTraveler malware family is still active, but has changed its modus operandi. Its targets remain the same: government …

Training: The Art of Exploiting Injection Flaws

HITBSecConf 2013 Malaysia will host the widely acclaimed course The Art of exploiting Injection Flaws in Kuala Lumpur on 14 and 15 October 2013. This hands-on session will …

Privacy case makes your phone untrackable

With all the recent revelations about NSA’s long cyber reach and the (in)voluntary involvement of big Internet companies and US telecoms in its many surveillance …

Login and password troubles revealed

Increasingly lengthy and complex log-in processes and web forms are driving consumers away from websites, according to Ping Identity. The study revealed that an overwhelming …

The TAO of NSA

In last week’s reports, it has been pointed out that NSA has its own hacking unit called Tailored Access Operations (TAO), and that its capabilities have been tapped for …

Microsoft and Google continue to press US government over transparency

Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, announced that Google and Microsoft are tired of waiting for the US government to allow them to publish sufficient data relating …

Leaked FinFisher presentation details toolkit’s spying capabilities

F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen has shared several interesting slides from a presentation that displays the wide range of capabilities offered by the FinFisher commercial …

Most security managers don’t trust their apps

Application vulnerabilities are a major factor in the cybercrime game. More than 500 CISOs and Security managers have been interviewed by Quotium about the security state of …

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