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SpyEye-fueled man-in-the-mobile attack targets bank customers

The customers of a European bank have recently been targeted by a man-in-the-mobile attack featuring a SpyEye variant. “The bank uses SMS based mTANs to authorize …

WordPress 3.1.1 fixes security issues

WordPress 3.1.1 is now available. This maintenance and security release fixes almost thirty issues in 3.1. Fixes: Some security hardening to media uploads Performance …

WhisperCore: Device and data protection for Android

WhisperCore is a secure Android platform dedicated to providing the security and management features necessary for transforming a consumer phone into an enterprise-class …

DHL Express spam campaign leads to fake AV

A new spam campaign impersonating the popular mail service DHL Express is currently underway, warn Bkis researchers. The email in question looks like this: Once the user …

Conde Nast scammed out of $8 million with single spear phishing email

Conde Nast – the company that publishes popular magazines such as Vogue, GQ, Architectural Digest, Wired, Vanity Fair, and many others – has been nearly defrauded …

Phishing scam offers fake Adobe Reader upgrade

Spam campaigns that target Adobe users are rather common, but there are always some users that haven’t heard about them and fall for the scam that offers them a fake …

Cheap Zeus source code will generate more Trojan variants

Barely two months after cybercriminals put the source code of Zeus up for sale at $100,000, reports are now coming in that the source code is being offered at bargain basement …

Millions in privacy violations wake-up the healthcare industry

What can healthcare organizations learn from the multi- million dollar penalties recently issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) …

MacScan 2.8 released

SecureMac released MacScan 2.8, the latest version of its anti-spyware, privacy and security software for Mac OS X. Detect, isolate, and remove spyware as well as clean up …

Secunia joins the Information Security Forum

Secunia has become a member of the Information Security Forum (ISF), an independent authority on best practice in the field of information risk management. Secunia thereby …

Data breach mistakes feared more than attackers

Seventy percent of compliance professionals feel that their organizations are well or very well prepared to fend off malicious hacker attacks, however, their confidence wanes …

Facebook users spammed through Events feature

Facebook scammers are sure to take advantage of every feature that the social network offers and that can be exploited to propagate their scams. The latest one employes the …

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