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Trustwave's SpiderLabs Researchers Have Found a Piece of Malware
Dec 11, 2013Trustwave's SpiderLabs researchers have found a piece of malware that collects data entered into Web-based forms, pretending to be a module for Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) web-hosting software. The malware, which is ...
Tags: malware, IIS, Trustwave, Network security, Microsoft
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A Variety of Network-Controlled Home Automation Devices Lack Basic Security Controls
Aug 2, 2013A variety of network-controlled home automation devices lack basic security controls, making it possible for attackers to access their sensitive functions, often from the Internet, according to researchers from security firm Trustwave. ...
Tags: Computer Products, softwre
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The Average Organisation Believes It Would Spot a Data Breach in 10 Hours
Jun 19, 2013The average organisation believes it would spot a data breach in 10 hours, a McAfee global survey of IT professionals has found. But is that result good, indifferent or an indication of the downright complacent? The firm’s ...
Tags: Data Breaches, McAfee
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Mozilla Is Taking Steps to Limit The Risk of Powerful Subordinate Certificate Authority
Feb 21, 2013Mozilla is taking steps to limit the risk of powerful subordinate Certificate Authority (CA) certificates falling into the hands of attackers and potentially being used to issue rogue certificates for use in SSL snooping attacks. The ...
Tags: Mozilla, browser maker, browser
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Outsourcing Has Been Identified as a Key Attack Vector in Two-Thirds of Investigations
Feb 17, 2013Outsourcing has been identified as a key attack vector in almost two-thirds of security investigations carried out by security services company Trustwave. The claim was carried in the company's 2013 Global Security Report, which draws ...
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Turkish Certificate Authority Responsible for Issuing an Intermediate CA Certificate
Jan 8, 2013IDG 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
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Microsoft Is Hardening Security Certificates as Part of This Month's Patch Tuesday Update
Dec 27, 2012Microsoft 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 ...
Tags: Microsoft, security certificates, IE patch, document handling
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One of The World's Most Active Spam Botnets Was Crippled
Dec 26, 2012IDG 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. ...
Tags: spam botnets, Netherlands, FireEye, security
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Microsoft Has Fixed 26 Security Holes in Its Software Products
Dec 25, 2012Microsoft has fixed 26 security holes in its software products – including five deemed "critical" – it said in its monthly security bulletin. The critical vulnerabilities affected Microsoft's Windows operating system, Internet ...
Tags: Microsoft, security holes, software products, critical vulnerabilities
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Gap Is Widening Between The Common Malware Threats Most Antivirus Systems Will Detect
Dec 24, 2012Incident response investigations are increasingly showing businesses cannot rely on antivirus systems alone for protection, say security researchers. The gap is widening between the common malware threats most antivirus systems will ...
Tags: antivirus systems, security researchers, Ziv Mador, banking malware
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A Trojan That Had Been Infected by a Virus, Leaving Both Still Functioning as Normal
Dec 19, 2012When malware infects a machine it usually goes after the system software. But in a rare case worked on by SpiderLabs, researchers found a Trojan that had been infected by a virus, leaving both still functioning as normal. The two pieces ...
Tags: malware, system software, SpiderLabs, Trojan, virus
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Malware Would Make It Easier for Anti-Virus Software to Detect
Aug 31, 2012Malware is able to infect other malware and in some cases make it easier for anti-virus software to detect,an incident response investigation by data-security firm Trustwave Spiderslabs has discovered. The research looked at two pieces of ...
Tags: malware, data security, Trustwave Spiderslabs, Trojan, virus