New ransomware variant in the wild

New ransomware variant in the wild


New ransomware variant in the wild

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 06:06 AM PDT

A new variant of a piece of ransomware seen in the wild late last year has begun targeting users that made the mistake of landing on the site that serves it via drive by download. Detected by Kas...

MySQL.com compromised by SQL injection attack

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:27 AM PDT

MySQL.com has been hacked and a part of the database containing member and employee email addresses, usernames and passwords has been published by the hackers on Pastebin.com. The compromise has ...

Lone hacker owns the Comodo certificate compromise

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:23 AM PDT

Last week's revelation that a Comodo affiliate Registration Authority has been compromised and that nine rogue SSL certificates have been issued for popular domains such as Gmail, Google Search, Yahoo...

Spotify has been displaying malicious ads

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:55 AM PDT

Streaming music service Spotify has been displaying malicious ads to users of their Free version. The ads lead to websites that used the Blackhole Exploit Kit to infect users with the Windows Recovery...

Intellectual capital is the new cybercrime currency

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:08 AM PDT

Cybercriminals understand there is greater value in selling a corporations' proprietary information and trade secrets which have little to no protection making intellectual capital their new currency ...

Protect the privacy of your Android phone

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:06 AM PDT

Privacy Blocker is an Android application that stops other installed applications from gathering your personal information. The software basically pinpoints the type of data certain applications ...

Most organizations can't access critical security data

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:29 AM PDT

Many enterprises feel that their security processes are failing to meet their potential due to a lack of coordination, benchmarking, and proactive improvement among the various "silos" of functionalit...

Metrics and measurements in network and service resilience

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 01:05 AM PDT

Business and governments are all reliant on secure networks, but how do you measure the resilience of these networks? The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published the ...

New Unified Threat Management gateway from Netgear

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 01:00 AM PDT

Netgear introduced the ProSecure UTM150 – a Unified Threat Management (UTM) gateway for businesses with around 150 users. The new UTM150 delivers enhanced graphical reporting capabilities and autom...

Week in review: SCADA attack code, Play.com breach and Comodo's rogue SSL certificates

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 10:42 PM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles, interviews, videos and podcasts: Google blames China for Gmail service disruptions It seems that the active exploitatio...

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