Citigroup admits breach, warns customers about phishing
Citigroup has finally made public the fact that it suffered a breach into its systems in May and that the names of some 200,000 customers, their account numbers and contact …
Plankton Android Trojan found in 10 apps on Android Market
Ten more applications have been pulled from the Google’s official Android Market following a notification that they contained a new kind of Android malware. The malware …
Admins of popular movie streaming portal arrested, site shut down
Kino.to, one of the most popular European movie streaming portals, has been shut down following coordinated raids executed by police officers in Germany, France, Spain and the …
French certification authority reveals its private key by mistake
Certigna, a major French certification authority whose certificates are trusted in all of today’s most popular browsers – IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and many …
Rustock still down, Microsoft pursues the botherders
Microsoft believes that the individuals behind the (still crippled) Rustock botnets are located in Russia, so it placed advertisements in the The Moscow News and the Delovoy …
Drupal Prepopulate Module vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in the Prepopulate module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious …
How search engine poisoning works
Imperva disclosed the intricate workings of a Search Engine Poisoning (SEP) campaign. The attack was extremely successful and continued to run for at least 15 months without …
Tips for embracing cloud computing
In today’s complex landscape of constant innovation and change, organizations should take advantage of emerging capabilities, skills and processes to address their …
Trends in the badware landscape
Badware is a defining challenge for individuals, businesses, and governments throughout the world. Cybercriminals have developed a mature badware economy in which individual …
Free tool protects against harmful links
Today website owners, bloggers and forum administrators are faced with many security concerns that can get in the way of what they really want to be doing – which is …
Cybersecurity, innovation and the Internet economy
The U.S. Department of Commerce today released a report that proposes voluntary codes of conduct to strengthen the cybersecurity of companies that increasingly rely on the …
Google enhances Safe Browsing protection in Chrome
Google released Chrome 12 to the Stable Channel for all platforms. Chrome 12.0.742.91 includes a number of new features and updates, including: Hardware accelerated 3D CSS New …