Trojan masquerades as iPhone jailbreaking software
An email campaigned targeting iPhone users who might want to jailbreak their device has been detected by BitDefender. Only a couple of days after U.S. federal regulators …
Authentication management platform for any and every authentication factor
” border=”0″ align=”left” vspace=”5″ hspace=”5″>Hitachi ID Systems has released Password Manager 7.0, an authentication …
Google has two times more malware than Bing, Yahoo! and Twitter combined
Barracuda released its Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report, revealing data from two key areas: search engine malware and Twitter use and crime rate. Searching for …
New assurance mark of software application security
Veracode unveiled the VERAFIED High Assurance mark of software application security for the CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors. This industry “seal of …
Sourcefire’s open source framework for deep threat inspection
Sourcefire announced Razorback, an open source framework designed to deliver deep inspection capabilities for combating today’s most complex threats. Developed to help …
100 million Facebook pages published on torrent site
A compilation of Facebook pages (and personal information) of 100 million users of the popular social network is available for download on a torrent site, courtesy of hacker …
Cell-phone call interception demonstration at Defcon might not be a sure thing
Ethical hacker Chris Paget is scheduled to give a talk on cellphone insecurity at Defcon this Saturday, during which he means to demonstrate the possibility of interception of …
Critical ToolTalk Database Server Parser vulnerability discovered
Check Point announced that its IPS Research team has recently discovered a critical vulnerability in a function of the ToolTalk Database Server Parser that can enable a remote …
Fake AV masquerading as Firefox/Flash update
The well known “fake scanning page” that pops up a warning about your computer being infected has been switched with a fake Firefox “Just Updated” page …
Critical vulnerability in Apple QuickTime
A highly critical vulnerability (as dubbed by security researchers from Secunia) affects the latest version of Apple QuickTime Player for Windows. “The vulnerability is …
Mariposa malware author arrested in Slovenia
A 23-year old Slovenian hacker that goes by the handle “Iserdo” has been arrested for developing the code that allowed the three alleged Spanish Mariposa botnet …
The cost of cyber crime
ArcSight and the Ponemon Institute announced the results of the First Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study (registration required). Over a four-week period, the 45 organizations …