Suspected money mule arrested in London
Members of the Police Central e-crime Unit arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of organizing money mules to open drop accounts in order to launder the proceeds of online …
Skimming attacks at European ATMs rise 24%
The latest European ATM Crime Report published by EAST (the European ATM Security Team), shows a 24% increase in card skimming attacks at European ATMs. 5,743 attacks were …
Phishing tax refund sites pop up in wake of deadline extension
Phishers taking advantage of the extended deadline for Indian taxpayers to file their income tax have cleverly thought of a way to trick customers of various banks with the …
Tool to test regular expressions for DoS vulnerabilities
Regular expression patterns containing certain clauses that execute in exponential time (for example, grouping clauses containing repetition that are themselves repeated) can …
Accelerate patching progress in the enterprise
At RSA Conference 2010 Europe last week, Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek gave a presentation on how to accelerate the patching progress in the enterprise. It contains example of …
Facebook apps send user information to ad agencies
Some five months ago, news broke that social networks were sending users’ ID numbers and/or names to advertising agencies every time the users click on the ads, by way …
Fake Twitter homepages serving malware
A number of bogus Twitter main pages have been popping up and are offering misdirected users a chance to see naked ladies and to download malicious applications, Sunbelt …
Nuclear site’s operation details found on lost USB stick?
Reports are coming in that an unencrypted USB stick – apparently containing details on the Sellafield nuclear site’s operations – was found by a coach driver …
78% of organizations experienced downtime due to mismanaged encryption
Encryption key and digital certificate inventories are rising, according to a study by Venafi. Poorly managed encryption leads to system downtime, non-compliance and audit …
Adobe to release more secure PDF reader
Adobe is announcing the new Acrobat X Family of Products which includes Adobe Reader X as well as Acrobat X Suite, Acrobat X Pro, and Acrobat X Standard. Reader X is the only …
Fraud losses increase by 20% in the past 12 months
Theft of information and electronic data at global companies has overtaken physical theft for the first time, according to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report. The study …
A cyber criminal’s key to vulnerable systems
New, advanced evasion techniques (AET) that can pose a serious threat to existing network security systems worldwide, according to Stonesoft. These AET threats significantly …