Cyber crime has continued to become more professional in 2012, with the barriers to entry becoming ever lower with the emergence of increasingly powerful toolkits and exploits for sale online. In the past year, cyber criminals have used ...
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A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai Lama, but one security vendor is labeling it as low risk. The malware, nicknamed "Dockster," is a backdoor that allows an ...
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Network World - VMware has issued a patch for its VMware View product that fixes a security vulnerability that could allow an unauthorized user to access system files. "VMware View contains a critical directory traversal vulnerability ...
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A security scare for Microsoft users hit late yesterday, after vulnerability management company Rapid7's Metasploit penetration tool project discovered an Internet Explorer exploit that is said to affect all browsers earlier than IE9, and ...
Hacking group Anonymous claims to have released a set of more than 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching the FBI. The group indicated that the action was part of is AntiSec (Anti Security) campaign to ...
Tags: FBI, Apple, Anti Security, security flaws
HERZELIA, ISRAEL, July 12, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Alentus announced today its partnership with GamaSec, a remote online website security scan service. GamaScan identifies web application vulnerabilities, provides real-time vital ...
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New solutions provide complete protection against all kinds of threats with minimum impact on PC performance thanks to their cloud technologies The new Scan Manager scans up to 70 percent faster BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, September 09, 2012 ...
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The recently launched Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat XI come with new security features and an improved sandbox that will make the products harder to attack and exploit, according to Adobe. The sandboxing feature known as the Protected ...
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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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With so many cyber attacks in the news recently, executives are becoming increasingly concerned about their organisation’s exposure to hackers. And so they should. According to our research, more than three-quarters of the Forbes ...
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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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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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Companies must take responsibility for cyber security at board level to tackle the exponential growth in attacks, the government has urged. The warning comes as ministers launch a Cyber Security for Business booklet to encourage company ...
Microsoft is hardening security certificates as part of this month's Patch Tuesday update, which includes nine fixes. In the Microsoft TechNet security blog, Yunsun Wee, director of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing wrote: "Today we are ...
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Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams. Security researchers from Symantec have detected a new email spam ...
Tags: Spammers, URL shortener service, U.S.government, social media activities