Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype,Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October,according to the latest threat report from security firm GFI Software. Researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits ...
Tags: Cyber criminals, Facebook, Windows users, chameleon of internet threats
Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome,making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Chrome 23,which ...
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Global fraud gang Operation High Roller – which targeted European finance firms earlier this year – has spread in the last three months to countries including the US, according to McAfee's latest threat report. Operation High ...
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A 16-year-old security researcher from India plans to present a malware application for Windows Phone 8 at the upcoming MalCon security conference in New Delhi,India,on Nov.24. According to a brief description of the presentation on the ...
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Nearly two-thirds of UK citizens back pre-emptive cyber strikes on foreign states that pose a credible threat to national security,a survey has revealed. However,46%of those believe it depends on the level of threat posed,according to a ...
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Many UK organisations are still failing to understand the implications of data breaches and estimate the costs of recovery accurately,a study has revealed. Of the UK companies that have not yet suffered a breach,58%told the Ponemon ...
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Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobile devices, cybersecurity vendor McAfee warned. Many of the scams in McAfee's 2012 ...
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The number of consumer smartphone and tablets brought into workplaces will more than double by 2014, according to a recent study, but security on the endpoints is lacking. Juniper Research claims the number of devices being used in the ...
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Twitter has apologised after telling members their accounts had been hacked and forcing them to reset their passwords. Twitter sent out a"large number"of emails telling members to change their log-in details,but gave no indication of the ...
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US multinational energy firm Chevron has revealed that it was hit by the Stuxnet virus,widely believed to have been launched by the US and Israel to spy on and disrupt Iran's nuclear facilities. Stuxnet was designed to target only the ...
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Software made by Siemens and targeted by the Stuxnet malware is still full of other dangerous vulnerabilities,according to Russian researchers whose presentation at the Defcon security conference earlier this year was cancelled following a ...
Tags: Siemens software, Stuxnet, Sergey Gordeychik, SCADA system
Cybercriminals are using a new PDF exploit that bypasses the sandbox security features in Adobe Reader X and XI, in order to install banking malware on computers, according to researchers from Russian security firm Group-IB. The zero-day ...
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Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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Infoworld - Thinking about the bits of data you leave behind is a one-way ticket to paranoia. Your browser? Full of cookies. Your cellphone? A beacon broadcasting your location at every moment. Search engines track your every curiosity. ...
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One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users,according to new research. SECURITY:Android malware market exploding,says Trend Micro Security vendor Bit9 ...
Tags: Security Research, Android apps, mobile-device, Google Play