Week in review: “Facebook closing” hoax, spam trends and third-party software vulnerabilities
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos and articles: Spam moving to social networks and mobile While at the moment it is not …
Ransomware continues to pose a threat
The great majority of cybercriminals is in it for the money. Some choose to steal it indirectly by using information-stealing malware to gain access to users’ online …
Former TSA employee sentenced for hacking agency’s databases
A former TSA worker has been found guilty and has been sentenced to two years in prison and a $60,587.07 fine to be payed to the TSA. He was accused of tampering with the …
Gamers breached medical server to play Call of Duty
An office server on which the New Hampshire Seacoast Radiology had stored sensitive personal and medical information of more than 230,000 patients has been breached in …
Bogus airline charge leads to Zeus Trojan
A recent spam campaign is targeting frequent users of a popular German airline carrier, baiting them with a exorbitant bogus fee that has apparently been charged to their …
Safety advice to protect connected devices
If you were one of the millions of people who received tech gifts during the holidays, beware. Computer and cybercrimes have risen by more than 22% according to the most …
Data breach notifications in Europe
Recent high profile incidents of personal data loss in Europe have prompted wide discussion about the level of security applied to personal information shared, processed, …
Adobe changes Flash Player feature to prevent user tracking
In the last few years, Adobe has realized that their products will have no future if they don’t step up the security aspect, and so they started doing things like …
Waledac botnet wakes up after 7 days of sleep
Waledac appeared in a new version in the last days of 2010, sending out big amounts of New Year related spam messages. It then stopped spamming in the evening of January 4th, …
REMnux: Linux distribution for reverse-engineering malware
REMnux is a lightweight Linux distribution for assisting malware analysts in reverse-engineering malicious software. REMnux is designed for running services that are useful to …
Security professionals focus on cloud computing skills
Information security professionals may be focusing on familiar territory rather than new paradigms when it comes to skilling up for the cloud, suggest early survey results …
Raising the security bar: Know and fine-tune your IPS
A long time ago, people thought that having a firewall in place would protect their systems and networks from any and every outside attack. And for a very short while, they …