It was announced on Sunday that the Acer India website has been hacked over the weekend, and a 41 Mb file was stolen and published on RapidShare.
Microsoft is teaming up malware researchers with its online advertising fraud experts in order to tackle a rising tide of online click-fraud.
ExploitShield has been marketed as offering protection “against all known and unknown 0-day day vulnerability exploits, protecting users where traditional anti-virus and security products fail.” I found this assertion quite extraordinary and exciting! Vulnerabilities in software applications are rea...
With the Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) global standard for credit and debit cards poised to be adopted in the US (there is an April 2013 migration deadline), analysts at Frost & Sullivan say that credit card payments will become much more secure. Almost half of the world’s credit card fraud...
Global hacktivist collective Anonymous is targeting Syrian websites worldwide to protest an internet blackout in that country, which was instituted Thursday in what most think is an attempt by President Bashar al-Assad to cut off communication routes for the opposition.
Y-a-t’il eu des cyber-attaques sur des infrastructures critiques depuis Stuxnet ? Je parle d’attaques capable de détruire des équipements, causer des accidents industriels, voire tuer des gens… par opposition au « simple » vol ou corruption de données.
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Almost a two-thirds of the top banking sites, one-fifth of popular open-source web app sites and a full 70% of the top 10 websites by number of visitors have absolutely no countermeasures against clickjacking attacks, even if they require a secure environment, such as banks providing online banking...
ChangeUp is the Symantec name for the worm known as W32/VBNA-X by Sophos and W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb by McAfee. All three companies are warning their users about an increase in detections over the last few days.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has written to the UK Pirate Party, a democratic political party, and demanded that it close the proxy service it provides to allow users to bypass the ISP block on The Pirate Bay.
On Tuesday a new shareholder lawsuit claimed audit firms Deloitte and KPMG missed red flags about Autonomy’s accounting, and also named HP's board of directors, officers, and former executives alleging breach of duty and negligence.
NSS Labs has published the second of its two analyses on the security capabilities of the four leading browsers. The first report was on the ability of browsers to block malware; this second is on browsers ability to filter malicious URLs.
As the year draws inexorably to a close, it’s only fair and natural that we, as an industry, peer into the future to see what could await us in the New Year. The latest to tackle such prognostication is the Information Security Forum (ISF), which has ID’d the top five security threats businesses wil...
...and 94% of the emails carry a malicious attachment – usually in ZIP, XLS or RTF format. These are the findings of new research published today.
SCADA software, used for industrial control mechanisms in utilities, airports, nuclear facilities, manufacturing plants and the like, is increasingly a target for hackers looking to exploit what appear to be growing numbers of vulnerabilities – giving rise to fears that critical infrastructure may b...
A new zero-day vulnerability in Yahoo! Mail has given rise to a $700 exploit for sale in the hacking underground.
The US Operation In Our Sights temporarily morphed into Project Cyber Monday 3 – with a European Project Transatlantic offshoot – and netted a combined haul of 132 seized counterfeiting website domains.
Citadel, which researchers say is essentially the Lamborghini of the financial information-stealing malware scene, is well on its way to overtaking Zeus and SpyEye as the go-to banking trojan after only being discovered earlier this month.
Go Daddy, the world’s largest internet domain host and registrar, may soon be known for more than those racy Super Bowl ads featuring Danica Patrick: ransomware is being spread across its footprint.
Just as the US voluntary six-strike infringement code is about to begin, the UK’s statutory three-strike regime inches closer with an OFCOM study into piracy and guidance on what constitutes a subscriber.
While European eyes are focused on the increasing political unrest in Greece, it has taken US reporters to notice a small detail: a Greek man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing 9 million personal data files.