IDG News Service - Turktrust, the Turkish certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing an intermediate CA certificate that was later used to generate an unauthorized certificate for google.com, claims that the bad Google certificate ...
Tags: Google certificate, Google, Microsoft, Internet
IDG News Service - Cisco Systems has warned customers about critical vulnerabilities in the Sophos antivirus engine included in its Cisco IronPort email and Web security appliances. "Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliances (ESA) and ...
Tags: Cisco Systems, antivirus engine, Web security appliances
A hacker is selling a$700 zero-day exploit for Yahoo Mail that lets an attacker use a cross-site scripting(XSS)vulnerability to steal cookies and hijack accounts. The hacker,known as"TheHell",created a video to market the exploit on an ...
Tags: hacker, Yahoo mail
The former boss of the UK's MI5 security service has caused a security scare by losing her laptop at Heathrow. Stella Rimington left the computer on a luggage trolley from where it was stolen, according to the The Sun. The laptop is ...
Online dating site eHarmony has also been hit by the theft of millions of passwords,some of which professional networking site LinkedIn confirmed corresponded to members'accounts. The confirmation came after reports that 6.5 million ...
French security firm Intego discovered a new Mac Trojan horse this week that is being used to target specific individuals. The Trojan, dubbed "Crisis" by Intego -- a Mac-only antivirus developer -- and called "Morcut" by Sophos, is ...
Tags: Intego, Mac, Trojan horse, Hacking Toolkit
More than one in four Wi-Fi networks in London are poorly secured or not secured at all, a scanning experiment by security firm Sophos has revealed. The experiment was conducted over two days by the firm’s director of technology ...
Tags: WiFi networks, Sophos, technology strategy, wireless network
When it comes to consumers' rights to control their own browsers, everybody wants to sound like they're pro-choice. But with many millions of advertising dollars on the line, the definition of pro-choice tends to align with the financial ...
The last member of a US cybercrime trio that netted up to $3m in a Wi-Fi and malware hacking spree has been sentenced. Joshuah Allen Witt, 35, John Earl Griffin, 36, and Brad Eugene Lowe, 39, have all now been given stiff prison terms. ...
Tags: Hacker, Hacking Spree, Computer Products
Security supplier Sophos has combined its endpoint protection and unified threat management (UTM) products into a single physical or virtual appliance. Sophos claims UTM 9 will cut the time and resources IT teams have to spend on ...
Tags: Sophos, UTM, Endpoint Security, Computer Products
The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has launched another competition aimed at addressing a critical Linux security skills gap. The majority of internet infrastructure is based on Linux, but Linux is rarely taught in schools and Linux ...
Tags: Cyber Security Challenge, critical Linux, internet infrastructure
An exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) has been incorporated into Blackhole, one of the most widely used Web attack toolkits, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Sophos. The ...
Tags: vulnerability, Microsoft, MSXML, Blackhole, Web attack toolkits
IDG News Service - Google on Thursday dismissed the possibility that a new wave of pharmacy, penny stock and e-card spam emails are being sent by Android spam botnets. "Our analysis suggests that spammers are using infected computers and ...
Tags: Google, pharmacy, penny stock, spam email, computers
DUBAI, UAE, December 22, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Less than eighteen months after introducing Sophos Mobile Control into its complete security product portfolio, the company today announced that more than one million devices worldwide are ...
Tags: Sophos, Mobile Device Management, mobile device, mobile security apps
Windows malware slipped past Apple's eye and has been found tucked into software available on the company's iOS App Store. Although the malware, labeled a worm by Microsoft and tagged as "Win32/VB.CB" by the company, is ineffective ...