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Fake financial statements and postal documents lead to fake AV

Fake emails purportedly coming from financial institutions and the post are currently hitting inboxes and are carrying a malicious .exe file disguised as a Word document. …

EU data breach notification law under advisement

The recent onslaught of cyber attacks against a variety of companies big and small and the consequent compromises of user information gathered by them has led the European …

An anonymous social network in the making?

Spurred by blocked accounts of Anonymous members and activists on various popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and (recently) Google+, a group apparently loosely …

Vulnerable firmware could destabilize Internet-enabled technologies

Kill switches and backdoors inserted at the point of manufacture could act as a conduit for organized criminals or foreign states to access internet-enabled devices, according …

Active Directory Change Reporter 7.0 released

NetWrix released Active Directory Change Reporter 7.0 which automates auditing of who changed what, when and where in Active Directory, Group Policy and MS Exchange, for …

Week in review: Booz Allen Hamilton breach, Google+ related scams and malware ecosystems

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: “Casey Anthony confession video” scam spreads The verdict in the …

Vodafone femtocell hack allows call interception on unpatched devices

News that The Hacker’s Choice had revealed a proof-of-concept attack for hacking Vodafone’s Sure Signal femtocells (routers for boosting phone signals) and turning …

New Hotmail security features against account hijacking

Microsoft has decided to introduce two new security features for its web-based Hotmail service, in the hope that this will make the accounts more difficult to hijack and …

Verizon takes on issue of stolen credentials

Unauthorized access to corporate networks through stolen user names and passwords topped 45 percent in 2010, making credentials the second most compromised data type, …

Secure mobile device access on single authentication platform

SafeNet announced its new mobile device credentialing solution that enables the secure use of consumer mobile devices on corporate networks. SafeNet’s Authentication …

90 people arrested for organized eBay fraud

90 suspects belonging to three different cyber fraud gangs have been arrested following a coordinated action by the Romanian Directorate for the Investigation of Organized …

Apple iDisk users targeted by phishers

Users of iDisk – Apple’s paid online file-hosting service bundled up in the MobileMe package – are being targeted by phishers, warns Symantec. Its …

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