Business model based on the malicious MPack tool
PandaLabs has discovered the new 0.90 version of the malicious tool Mpack, available for US$1000 on the Web. This application could be defined as “a kit for installing …
A closer look at Tor privacy tool
Tor is a tool that can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. This is a graphical …
Fast-moving web threat spreads around the world
Security researchers at Trend Micro reported an accelerating infection in Italy of seemingly legitimate web pages loaded with malicious code that could plant a keylogger to …
Monitoring all local and privileged user access to database
Tizor Systems announced Mantra V5.4 with Enterprise Local Audit Architecture, the most complete solution for monitoring all local and privileged user access to databases. …
Hedgehog database security and insider threat prevention solution
Sentrigo announced the general availability of Hedgehog, product specifically designed to combat data breaches caused by insiders with access privileges—including employees, …
New ASUS notebooks with biometric fingerprint sensors
AuthenTec announced that its AES1610 fingerprint sensors are standard in more than a dozen new 2007 Windows Vista-model ASUS notebooks. Bundled with the Trusted Platform …
Watch out for .hk domains with embedded malware code
ISC handler Maarten Van Horenbeeck writes that many valued contributors wrote in yesterday with various spam messages that contained nothing but a short piece of text and a …
Trojan horse allows attacker connect to Internet through your computer
A malware named Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Agent.y is on the prowl and like other members of its family, this one too facilitates a remote attacker to access the Internet via a …
This week’s top malware: “YouTube” and Dotex worms
This week’s PandaLabs report looks at two very dangerous worms: Dotex.A and SpreadBanker.A, as well as the six security patches published by Microsoft to fix up to …
New AI-based security data and log analyzer
Privacyware has released Adaptive Security Analyzer 2.0 (ASA), a software solution that helps system administrators and security and compliance personnel detect, understand …
Results from the annual RSA’s Wireless Security Survey 2007
As measured by the use of either advanced encryption or Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), London experienced notable improvement in the security of business wireless networks …
Data security summary report for 1H 2007 (video, 10 min)
Couple of days ago we covered F-Secure’s data security summary report for the first 6 months of 2007. Here is a video version of the report:
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