Spear-phishing and crimeware assembling marked second half of 2010
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reports that the development of crimeware surged in the half-year period ending in December, 2010 with one data contributor registering …
Metasploit module for imitating Cisco devices
SecureState announced the release of the CDP tool, an additional module for the Metasploit Framework, this time for forging Cisco Discovery Protocol frames. The Cisco …
A unique malware file is created every half-second
Sophos has released its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report, which reveals that since the beginning of 2011, the company has identified an average of 150,000 malware samples …
Mass iFrame injection attack now counts millions of compromised web pages
The recently discovered iFrame injection campaign rages on, as the number of compromised web pages goes from 90,000+ to over three million. Armorize researchers have been …
Anonymous hits US government contractor, law enforcement institutions
It has been a busy few days for hacktivist group Anonymous. On Friday they released some 400 MB of documents seemingly belonging to US government contractor Mantech, …
Conversation-spying Android Trojan in the wild
Android malware has so far been spotted doing things like sending text messages or making calls to premium service numbers, sending out information about the device and …
Arrested “Topiary” has a name, faces five charges
The alleged LulzSec member arrested last week by the e-Crime Unit of London’s Metropolitan Police on the Shetland Islands has a name: Jake Davis. He is 18 years old …
Facebook introduces bug bounty program
Facebook has decided to follow in Google’s and Mozilla’s steps and institute a bug bounty program rewarding the responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities …
Week in review: Massive iFrame injection attack, Anonymous/LulzSec arrests and Facebook phishing
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Global analysis of 10 million web attacks Web applications, on average, experience …
Conficker found on external HD devices on sale
Australian supermarket chain ALDI might seem like the last place where one can pick up a Conficker infection, but according to an emergency security alert by the Australian …
“Wrong hotel transaction” spam bombards victims with malware
A particularly malicious spam run consisting of emails ostensibly sent by reception desk managers of various hotels has been targeting Visa users. The emails exhibit subject …
Web app security scanner Netsparker 2.0 released
Netsparker can crawl, attack and identify vulnerabilities in all custom web applications regardless of the platform and the technology it’s built on, just like an actual …
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