Today’s mobile spam and phishing attacks will increasingly delivered by mobile malware networks, despite mobile device operating systems being more secure than those of desktop or laptop computers, a report has found. Blue Coat ...
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Adobe on Tuesday released security patches for both Flash Player and Shockwave Player, addressing a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the two products. New stand-alone versions of Flash Player 11 were released for Windows, Mac, Linux ...
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RSA last week launched its Security Analytics solution in the UAE, promising to leverage big data in order to provide the visibility and context required to help defend against advanced security threats. The new Security Analytics fuses ...
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Symantec on Wednesday began offering multi-algorithm SSL certificates for Web servers that go beyond traditional crypto to include what’s known as the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA). The firm ...
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Financial malware authors are returning to traditional, phishing-like, credential-stealing techniques in order to evade detection, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan programs used by cybercriminals ...
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Adobe updated Flash Player on Thursday in order to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers have reportedly been using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs. The out-of-band, or emergency, update was Flash’s first of the year ...
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Microsoft and Symantec on Wednesday announced that they have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the $12.7 billion online ...
27 million new malware strains found in 2012, at an average of 74,000 new samples per day BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, February 08, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- PandaLabs, the antimalware laboratory of Panda Security, has released its 2012 Annual ...
Security firm FireEye has claimed that a series of targeted malware attacks detected a year ago are almost certainly part of a Chinese campaign to steal industrial secrets from US companies working in the field of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial ...
In a security landscape report released on Tuesday, security software maker F-Secure claimed that 2012 was the "year of the exploit". F-Secure, which focused on cyber threats during the second half of 2012, noted that the Internet has ...
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A disgruntled employee, angry at missing out on a pay rise, conducted a three-year campaign of sabotage against his company's computers by spraying the cleaning product Cillit Bang into the grills of the servers. Credit controller Edward ...
Twitter's servers have been breached by "extremely sophisticated" hackers who may have made off with user names and passwords for about 250,000 users, the company said Friday. Twitter said unusual access patterns led it to identify the ...
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This year's major malware trend will be the appearance of more Stuxnet and Flame-style ‘cyber weapons', internet security firm AVG's CTO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, has revealed to Computing. "Stuxnet and Flame have already happened, and ...
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A String of cyber attacks on major US media outlets has intensified worries over Chinese hackers, who analysts say are probably linked to the secretive Beijing government. The attacks, part of a series of incidents traced to Chinese ...
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The passwords of about 250,000 Twitter users were stolen in a "sophisticated" cyber attack similar to those that recently hit major Western news outlets. "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated ...
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