U.S. Postal Service mails fraud warning to 129 million households
It’s a sign of the times we live in when the U.S. Postal Service decides to carry out a mailing campaign that will deliver a brochure on fraud and identity theft to 129 …
25% of all targeted attacks hit the retail sector
Analysis reveals that targeted attacks have increased significantly since they were first discovered five years ago from one to two attacks per week in 2005 to 77 attacks per …
Americans feel safer on a computer than a mobile device
Americans feel their home computers are protected from malware and attackers but that confidence does not translate to their mobile devices with 87 percent of people surveyed …
Firefox 3.6.12 fixes critical security issue
Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.11 that fixes a critical security issue. Heap buffer overflow mixing document.write and DOM insertion Morten Kråkvik of Telenor SOC reported …
A new approach for malware distribution
Some malware developers sell their product, other offer its source code for free. So, what’s the catch? What’s in it for them? The analysis of a malware sample …
BoingBoing hacked and defaced
BoingBoing.net, the popular blog and “directory of wonderful things”, has been hacked and its home page replaced with a message containing vulgar language and …
Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.3 released
Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.3 features a new security safeguard against malicious websites, as well as improvements to the user experience, in both the Free and Pro Editions. The …
Hardware encrypted RAID tower
Ciphertex Data Security introduced the CX-RANGER/E, a portable encrypted RAID system with AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption and up to 5 Terabytes of storage capacity. It …
Increase in Halloween malware attacks
There’s an increase in the number of Trojans circulating in the pre-Halloween period this year, according to GFI Software. Eight of the top 10 threat detections …
Automated data protection for private clouds
EMC announced their new Data Protection Advisor management software that automatically monitors, analyzes, provides alerts and reports on all aspects of the protection status …
Alleged spam kingpin under investigation
31-year old Russian Igor Gusev is being investigated by the Russian police because they believe him to be the central figure behind the well-known spamming affiliate program …
Cybercriminals aggressively recruiting money mules
Money mules have been aggressively recruited this year to help cyber criminals launder money, according to Fortinet. A recent example of this is the worldwide prosecutions of …
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