Financial malware attacks will escalate
Microsoft added detection and removal capabilities for the ZeuS financial malware (also known as Zbot and WSNPoem) to its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) on 12th of …
Customers vote against banks that don’t take security seriously
A report claiming to show that one in ten bank customers have moved banks owing to privacy and security concerns is a clear example of how banks need to start taking …
Fedora 14 released
The free open source operating system distribution Fedora 14 is now available for download. Fedora 14 includes several new features for developers, system administrators and …
New IE 0-day exploit code found in the wild
Exploit code for a previously unknown Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that would allow an attacker to perform a remote code execution and install malware on the …
Bank customers get malicious e-mails with stolen private data
The customers of a number of Brazilian banks are currently being targeted with e-mails made to look like official communication from the banks in question, but are actually …
Experts run large cyber attack simulation exercise
Europe’s cyber security experts are testing their responses today in the first ever pan-European cyber-attack simulation exercise. In “Cyber Europe 2010“, …
Hole in iPhone PayPal app allows account hijacking
PayPal customers that use the payment company’s iPhone application to effectuate payments should update it as soon as possible, because a vulnerability that can be …
Consensus IT security metrics
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) announced an updated release of its CIS Metrics, the industry’s first consensus metrics for information security. The release …
Fake Twitter warnings lure users to potentially malicious site
Twitter users are often targeted with various fake messages purportedly coming from the microblogging service, and these e-mails usually try to trick the users into clicking …
New vulnerability impacts Internet Explorer users
Microsoft is investigating new, public reports of a vulnerability in all supported versions of Internet Explorer. The main impact of the vulnerability is remote code …
Popular online services graded on SSL implementation
It seems that Firesheep has succeeded where similar tools have failed in the past: the issue of full end-to-end encryption for all websites – especially the most popular …
Perverted Facebook hacker targeted women
The recent arrest of a 23-year-old California man that has allegedly hacked e-mail accounts of more than 170 women and posted sexually explicit pictures found within them to …
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