Israel Police pulled computers offline due to RAT infestation
Trend Micro researchers have managed to get their hands on the malware that caused the Israeli Police Department to pull all of its systems offline last Thursday, and the …
Splunk Enterprise 5 released
Splunk announced Splunk Enterprise 5, which includes added features to create a powerful platform for developers building big data applications. “Even as data volume and …
Inside the black market for social network fraud
In its analysis of a large hacker forum containing roughly 250,000 members, Imperva detected a black market for social network fraud. In addition, about one third of …
Yahoo! will disregard Do Not Track requests from IE 10 users
As more and more browser developers add the support for the Do Not Track header to their products, and since Microsoft’s decision of making IE10 have the Do Not Track on …
A surveillance system that can anticipate trouble
Two researchers from the Psychology Department of the Carnegie Mellon University have managed to create a video surveillance system that not only follows human activity, but …
“Free Windows 8” offer leads to email hijacking
Hot on the heels of the recent release of Windows 8 and a generic spam campaign supposedly delivering a Windows license comes another attempt to take advantage of unwary …
Rugged Android device with secure communication
Cummings Engineering, in partnership with Ascent Rugged Mobile, is launching SAIFE Defender, a commercial rugged Android device with secure digital communications. SAIFE …
F-Secure keeps your apps, plugins and OS up-to-date
F-Secure has introduced Software Updater which offers patch management as a business security feature. Over 80% of the top 10 malware detected by F-Secure Labs are targeted …
Mobility management for Windows Phone 8
AirWatch unveils device and application management support for Windows Phone 8 devices. “With the introduction of the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820, partnerships …
Privacy-invading module found in thousands of apps on Google Play
An advertising module embedded into over 7,000 “free” fake versions of legitimate Android apps that can be found on Google Play is actively harvesting a ton of …
Coverity Security Library released on GitHub
Coverity announced the creation of the Coverity Security Library, an open source project available through GitHub and Maven to help developers easily fix cross-site scripting …
Intel joins SAFECode
The Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode), a non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to increasing trust in information and communications …