A security researcher claims that he found 23 vulnerabilities in industrial control software from several vendors after a different security company last week showcased vulnerabilities in applications from some of the same manufacturers, ...
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Less than 5% of the top 40 antivirus systems are able to detect previously non-cataloged viruses initially, a study has revealed. A test by security firm Imperva, which used more than 80 previously non-catalogued viruses, showed that many ...
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IT security budgets are not being used to provide defence technology in some of the areas the enterprise is most likely to need it in, a study has revealed. About 33% of hacker forum discussions are about training and tutorials for data ...
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The second quarter of 2012 saw the biggest increase in malware samples detected in the past four years, says security firm McAfee. Researchers detected a 1.5 million sample increase in malware since Q1 2012, according to the firm’s ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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An average of 96% of the top 100 paid mobile apps have been hacked, a study has revealed. Android is the most susceptible platform, according to the State of Security in the App Economy report by security firm Arxan Technologies. The ...
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Orange Android devices will come pre-installed with the Lookout Mobile Security application to prevent mobile devices being affected by malware and spyware. The application will run in the background of the device, scanning applications ...
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Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
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Security firm Websense is to launch cyber security intelligence services to enable businesses to tap into the resources of its research teams. The official launch is scheduled for later this month, but Websense revealed some details of ...
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Researchers from Israel-based IT security firm Seculert have uncovered a custom-made piece of malware that infected hundreds of point-of-sale (PoS) systems from businesses in 40 countries in the past few months and stole the data of tens of ...
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Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world's third-largest botnet of hijacked computers. The Grum botnet is believed to have been responsible for around 18% of global spam, or 18 billion spam messages a day. ...
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CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems (ICS) from over 200 vendors contains a vulnerability that allows potential attackers to execute sensitive commands on the vulnerable devices without the need for ...
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IDG News Service - Attackers are exploiting a new and unpatched vulnerability that affects the latest version of Java -- Java 7 Update 6 -- in order to infect computers with malware, according to researchers from security vendor FireEye. ...
IDG News Service - One of the world's most active spam botnets -- Grum -- was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. ...
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