A researcher with ESET says that his firm has identified that the volume and incidence of malware seen on the Android smartphone and tablet platform are increasing. Cameron Camp, from the East European IT security vendor, says malware authors are ramping up their output to account for the take-up of...
Simwood has launched a defence technology that it claims can be used defend against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
A threats analyst with Trend Micro is reporting that another piece of Android malware – from the Nickispy family – has been spotted in the wild. As with other versions of Nickispy, the malware eavesdrops on users and data sessions on the infected mobile device.
Whilst carder forums and other types of illegal card credential exchanges are numerous on the darker side of the internet, security researcher Brian Krebs has revealed that a major vendor of stolen card details has been hacked, presumably by his/her fellow cybercriminals.
LinkedIn has responded to criticism of its "social ads" feature over its use of members' names and photos in advertisements on its website.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has notified 75,000 students and staff members that their personal information, including social security numbers, may have been compromised as the result of a data breach.
Sophos has warned LinkedIn users of the need to be aware of a change to the business social networking site's privacy policy, apparently allowing the site to use member's names and photos in promotional advertisements. The change, says the IT security vendor, allows LinkedIn to use the information a...
Here's an interesting – if cautionary – tale of how an Apple store in Canada apparently refused to hand back a stolen iPhone to a woman, despite police and Apple's database as confirming the hardware was registered to her.
GFI Software's senior threat researcher has warned about a Russian website that is apparently offering various low-cost versions of the CCleaner PC utility, which is widely used to remove unwanted files, fix problematic registry entries and the like. The only problem with the pirate site is that the...
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has teamed up with the International Electrochemical Commission (IEC) to publish joint security and privacy standards regarding the use of biometric data for authentication.
A new type of exploitation technique is making use of improper implementation of proprietary protocol specifications, warns an analysis by researchers from Alert Logic.
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange was forced to suspend afternoon trading in seven listed companies after the news portion of its website was hit by hackers.
A malware-laden autowhaler application unleashed to infect cybercriminals stealing from phishers, and a rogue anti-virus product offering up a fake codec suite for sale after it disables users’ video players, top GFI Software’s list of the most prevalent threats for July 2011.
Prime minister David Cameron has said government will crack down on rioters using social networks to communicate, as Parliament was recalled from its summer recess to discuss the outbreak of violence this week.
The smartphone, and increasingly the tablet, are fast becoming the primary device of choice for both personal and enterprise use. Infosecurity spoke with Omri Sigelman, VP of marketing and products for AVG Mobile Solutions, at last week’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas to discuss the state of sec...
Myanmar has come out of nowhere to top the list of sources of malicious internet traffic in Akamai’s State of the Internet report, the first time the country has ever appeared on the list.
A leading IT security expert is warning companies that AV, firewalls and IDS technology may no longer be enough to defend company IT resources against attacks.
Nearly 25% of engineers said they personally knew about security problems in their company’s smart devices that have not been disclosed to their customers and the general public, according to a recent survey by device security firm Mocana.
Effective Oct. 1, 2012, Visa is eliminating the requirement for US merchants to annually validate their compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) if 75% of the merchant’s annual Visa transactions originate from chip-enabled terminals.
The latest monthly malware and threats report from GFI Labs - the research operation of GFI Software - claims that cybercriminals are now stealing end user credentials from each other, as well as using complex new methodologies when seeking to infect end users' PCs.