Week in review: SANS’ real-world cyber city, and the return of an aggressive autorun worm
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: eBay patches two critical security flaws on US website Two critical vulnerabilities …
Facebook’s “Hacktober” tests employees’ security awareness
Since 2004, October has been dubbed “National Cyber Security Awareness Month,” and many security-minded individuals, businesses and organizations make it a point …
Agressive worm infection leads to banking Trojan infection
An aggressive variant of the VBNA-X “autorun” worm is finding its way onto users’ computers, preparing them for further malicious downloads, warns Sophos. …
Personal data of 235,000 WCSU students exposed
Western Connecticut State University has begun notifying students, their families, and individuals who had other associations with the university that their personal …
Nmap 6.25 released
Nmap is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the …
Shylock’s new trick for evading malware researchers
Shylock is a financial malware platform discovered by Trusteer in 2011. Like most malware strains, Shylock continues to evolve in order to bypass new defensive technologies …
Mobile and cloud developments will dominate 2013
For the past several years, the IT industry’s transition to the 3rd Platform, built on mobile computing, cloud services, social networking, and big data analytics …
Metaforic releases software protection technology
Metaforic unveiled several new technology advancements that make it easier for software creators to protect a wide range of software (mobile, embedded, desktop, server) …
AVG releases Safe Browser for iOS, updates AntiVirus for Android
AVG updated its AntiVirus for Android and launched the new AVG Safe Browser for iOS. The main eye catcher in AVG AntiVirus for Android version 3.0.2 is the new user interface. …
Mobile communications hub with embedded encryption
API Technologies announced the new SST Secure Communications Hub (SCH) with integrated encryption. The SB1500ER Secure Communication Hub is a single, integrated device that …
Trend Micro cloud security optimized for Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers are able to take advantage of optimized security solutions from Trend Micro for their AWS deployments, including the AWS Storage Gateway. …
UN atomic energy agency confirms breach into its server
It has been confirmed that the email addresses recently leaked by anti-Israel hacker group “Parastoo” have been stolen from a server belonging to the International …
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